Post Processing of wavs before burning?

[neo_74]

For those of you that decode .flac to .wav before burning, is there any post processing that should be done to the .wav first before making a typical audio cd?

[Cornucopia]

(Assuming it's 16bit, 44.1kHz, Stereo to begin with):

No, should be ready to go...

Scott

[neo_74]

Hi, thanks for your quick reply. I never realized there was so much to learn now that I'm more concerned about quality and not quantity

[Cornucopia]

That's the beauty of lossless compression, like Zip files. Once you "unzip" them, they're just copies of the originals (although, with flac decode you'll have to "create" a new WAV wrapper on the save).

Glad you're enjoying the journey!

Scott

[neo_74]

Ok, just so I (newbie) understand what do you mean by create new wav wrapper during save?

[Cornucopia]

You have a flac file (assuming it's to CD spec already).

You can either:
A. put it directly into a CD burning app that SUPPORTS import of flac source files.
B. open in an editor/convert that supports flac source files, and then export/save a standard LPCM WAV from it. This then will be the source for the CD burning (for apps that DON'T suport flac).

Inside a "decoded" flac file is just a standard RAW LPCM stream, just like the contents of a normal RAW LPCM stream that's internal to a WAV file (without it's headers/metadata). Same as what's on a CD (after all the error-correction decoding.

Scott