Could I ask why? I archive as FLAC (mostly on CDR), but also have an audio copy around if I want to listen to the show. FLAC = perfect copies possible, Audio = DAE, flaws possible, apparently even when using EAC.
Not WAV in audio format, WAV in data format - no DAE required. Still perfect copies, but better error recovery since a given amount of physical damage will impact a smaller portion of the WAV file, and a larger portion of the compressed FLAC file.
They pretty much answered the question, but my issue was that I have a number of FLAC files that can't be converted back to .wav anymore... I suspect it is because a peice of the data got fucked up (drive corruption, I believe) - causing the data not to match the header. When I discovered this stuff, a few weeks ago, I decided to go to actual audio CD-Rs, for a number of reasons.... My experience at my job (data archiving, kinda...) tells me that certain formats can fall by the wayside, and while I don't forsee that happening with FLAC or WAV, I see it as a possibility. So, I put them on as audio cd's for the worst case scenario as I saw it - that I'd have to do a cd -> cd copy.
But, I just ordered an R-1, so what will probably happen from now on is a .wav data file on a dvd-r. With media being relatively cheap these days, I don't see the need to compress files for archiving, given the problems that I've run into w/ FLACs before.
My $.02... having the flacs but not being able to decompress them totally sucks.