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holla,
did i loose quality, if I convert a wav to flac for storage and if needed convert again the flac to wav (for audio editing - sony sound forge doesn't support flac)

greetings
marcus

Flac is lossless compression. You don't lose anything - not even a single bit.

wav1 => flac => wav => flac => wav => flac => wav2
wav1 is bit-by-bit the same as wav2

wav1 => mp3 => wav => mp3 => wav => mp3 => wav => mp3 => wav2
wav1 has nothing in comon with wav2

- bram

yo, thanks for clearing this.
i just was wondering about the compression levels of flac.

greetings
marcus

ps: will be flac supported here in future?

http://flac.sourceforge.net
has all the information you need about flac.

http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html
has a lengthy comparison of flac with other compression schemes.

About support: I'll have a look...

- bram

Bram
About support: I'll have a look...

done.
freesound now supports flac.

- bram

wow, fast!
thanks!