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January 13th, 2007, 01:57 PM
I recently found a soundtrack I've been wanting somewhere and found it available in flac format as well as mp3 format. Since I didn't know what to do with the flac format I downloaded it in mp3 format. Then I tried burning it using Nero Burning Rom 7.2.0.3. I selected Cd>Audio dragged and dropped the mp3 files to the appropriate place and proceded to burn it. Everything went very fast. It took less than 2 minutes to do this.
However the cd would skip on about the 6th track and stop playing. So next I used winamp 2.81 do decompress the mp3 files to wav files then reburned doing the same process at a slower speed and had success.
My question to you is this:
is flac decompressed to wav file before burning? if flac is created from a wav file and uncompressed to a wav file then doesn't it stand to reason that the wav format is superior to flac?
I ask this because I don't know any better and am trying to understand if this is the correct procedure for burning flac files as an audio cd.
How do you guys do it and do your programs do the conversion automatically? I am assuming no matter what you use the flac still has to be converted back to a wav file before it can be burned as an audio cd whether the process is transparent (you are aware of it) or not.
However the cd would skip on about the 6th track and stop playing. So next I used winamp 2.81 do decompress the mp3 files to wav files then reburned doing the same process at a slower speed and had success.
My question to you is this:
is flac decompressed to wav file before burning? if flac is created from a wav file and uncompressed to a wav file then doesn't it stand to reason that the wav format is superior to flac?
I ask this because I don't know any better and am trying to understand if this is the correct procedure for burning flac files as an audio cd.
How do you guys do it and do your programs do the conversion automatically? I am assuming no matter what you use the flac still has to be converted back to a wav file before it can be burned as an audio cd whether the process is transparent (you are aware of it) or not.