Topic: Archiving my recordings WAV or FLAC?

[emalvido]

Hello:
So, its time to archive my DAT´s to DVD before I regret it 
Im doing a bulk save, one huge WAV file for each taping/concert, no splits, no fixes, its the raw file
all of my tapings are at 48Khz
What would you do?
1- WAV file directly to DVD
2- Wav file convert to FLAC then to DVD
Thanks
Ed 

[Ryan Sims]

I vote for FLAC. Generate a checksum with it. Boom.

[rowjimmytour]

I was just thinking about this the other day when I was archiving my 4 track masters to DVD-R. I always go wav and use more then one if I have to add the flac.24 files to one of the disc w/ cue sheets. In the end I went for wav still for ease and cost being so cheap for a blank DVD-r.
Peace

[ghellquist]

Wav is the safer bet. You only save a little space with FLAC but if a single bit is corrupted the whole file may be unreadable. With wav you would get a very short noise burst instead.

Gunnar

[rasta]

I vote for FLAC. Generate a checksum with it. Boom.

Can someone explain when to do the checksum.  Is it before you convert to FLAC?  What about fixing SBE's?

[Ryan Sims]

If you're going to FLAC the entire show/set, then generate the checksum afterward.

From my understanding there is no need to worry about SBEs if you haven't tracked the file; someone correct me if I'm wrong.