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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: emalvido on February 23, 2008, 03:12:28 PM
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Hello:
So, its time to archive my DAT´s to DVD before I regret it 8)
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 :)
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I vote for FLAC. Generate a checksum with it. Boom.
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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
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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
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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?
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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.