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Title: Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: Sterling on December 17, 2003, 12:37:58 PM: Can I just convert my WAV files to FLAC, delete the WAV's and just convert when i need to burn it on disc or listen to it? I have a heap of shit on my HD and I'm loosing space. I like to back my CD's up on HD, will puting them in FLAC help or will I loose and Quality in the process? Flac seems to be half teh size of WAVs...IKS but I thinn this is a good ideer...hmmm
Title: Re:Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: Brian Skalinder on December 17, 2003, 12:41:02 PM: Quote from: stearnskid on December 17, 2003, 12:37:58 PM
Can I just convert my WAV files to FLAC, delete the WAV's and just convert when i need to burn it on disc or listen to it? I have a heap of shit on my HD and I'm loosing space. I like to back my CD's up on HD, will puting them in FLAC help or will I loose and Quality in the process? Flac seems to be half teh size of WAVs...IKS but I thinn this is a good ideer...hmmm

Yes, yes, no, good ideer.
Title: Re:Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: Simp-Dawg on December 17, 2003, 12:41:44 PM: flac is lossless, you can delete the wavs if you need to and decode the flac's for burning without losing any quality.
Title: Re:Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: Sterling on December 17, 2003, 01:41:17 PM: Great, so I can get half of my HD space back!
Title: Re:Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: sleepypedro on December 17, 2003, 02:48:24 PM: why don't you delete the wavs, burn the FLAC files to data CDs, then you get *ALL* of your hd space back?

EUREKA!
Title: Re:Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: F.O.Bean on December 18, 2003, 05:50:06 AM: and instead of going wav>flac and erasing all those wavs, just set it to "delete input file" and the wav is gone as soon as its converted into a flac file, one simple step...... 8)

so youll go wav>flac and the wav will be GONE phorever 8)

then id burn all that onto disc, and walla DONE and done 8)
Title: Re:Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: MattD on December 18, 2003, 07:42:03 AM: If "deleting input file," I would also make sure to check "verify" just in case for some reason the FLAC fails to get created properly, it shouldn't delete and you haven't lost all the work you did to get that file. (Does it do this even if verify isn't checked?)
Title: Re:Flac Q ~ Convert from WAV and save??
Post by: Sterling on December 18, 2003, 09:27:38 AM: Thanks for all the help guys...its great +T. But what about winamp media files? Can I convert those to flac at all or what. It seems that I have alot of those type files on my HD. Thanks again for all the help, space is opening up woo hoo!

SS