Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

@Shannon I don't know if anybody other than me still burns subliminals on a audio CD....

I have a question about that, since with newer generations you publish also FLAC files...

Can I decompress the FLAC file to WAV in order to burn it to an audio CD?

If not, I will continue to burn mp3s to a data cd (so I can listen to them on a HI-FI system)

Thank you for the reply

De-compressing an audio file cannot lead to damaging the result as long as you do not de-compress it to a compressed format.  In other words, transcoding it is not decompressing it, and is to be avoided.  Decompression is always to an uncompressed format, and does no damage.  .WAV is an uncompressed format, so you are free to decompress .FLAC and /MP3 files to .WAV to make your own CDs.  If you do this, always use .FLAC, which will give you the original .WAV I created.

The key is, never try to transcode or re-compress a subliminal.