> My understanding of the FLAC format is there is no transcoding being
> done at all. FLAC is a codec that uses a lossless algorithm to
> compress a file and with the appropriate decoder is then decompressed
> to an original identical copy of the audio data. If the file is a DTS
> (lossy) file, compressing and decompressing the file should have no
> affect on the quality of the original file. FLAC is a container format
> that merely makes the file size smaller (losslessly), no different
> than zipping a file would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac
You're missing the point here. Of course the data is not changed, but
you're passing off a lossy rip as lossless because FLAC is primarily a
lossless codec (not a container in the sense that WAV is) and is thus
traditionally used to losslessly archive CD format or better, not
lossy sources. What you're suggesting is the same as if you would
transcode an MP3 to WAV. Sure, WAV is just a container and may contain
any kind of sound data. But does it make sense? No. Btw, dts is
already inside a wav container most of the time, so just rename it to
xy.dts.wav if you must.
Besides, the space gain is little and you lose the ability to hardware
decode the DTS stream AFAIK when you stream from FLAC to a receiver.
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