I am writing an encoding software and dealing with uncompressed wav and flac formats. My question is, flac is supposed to be a lossless format, similar to wav but compressed. However, certain softwares such as JRiver’s Media Center offer a ‘quality’ setting for encoding flac files. Does taht mean they are offering to reduce quality pre-encoding or am i missing something in the flac standard?
I am writing an encoding software and dealing with uncompressed wav and flac formats.
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The quality parameter for FLAC refers to the quality of compression, not audio. The audio will stay lossless but you get a better compression with higher quality. Higher quality will take more time to compress however.
See docs http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Encoding_Settings