Re:FLAC – Format overview
by hurflmurfl on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:33PM
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WAV is the original lossless audio file. FLAC is just a compressed version of that file (think of it as .zip).
MP3 is more like an edited version of the original where "extra fluff" is removed from the audio in a way that you can still hear the important bits. And then compressed for further space savings.
Obviously, there is no point in converting MP3 to FLAC since when the original lossless audio track was MP3'd , it lost some of the audio information, so you'd only be changing the compression algorithm, I imagine.
MP3 is more like an edited version of the original where "extra fluff" is removed from the audio in a way that you can still hear the important bits. And then compressed for further space savings.
Obviously, there is no point in converting MP3 to FLAC since when the original lossless audio track was MP3'd , it lost some of the audio information, so you'd only be changing the compression algorithm, I imagine.