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| S Sep 29, 2015 at 4:13 | history | suggested | user233069 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improved grammar and formatting (mostly removing excessive backticks)
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| Mar 14, 2013 at 10:24 | comment | added | Pylsa | @RustyMonkey a more likely scenario would even be: garbage in, worse garbage out. ;) | |
| Dec 13, 2012 at 18:44 | comment | added | Rusty Monkey | To elaborate on the previous comment: your MP3 file is lossy--meaning that it contains audio artifacts that may or may not be audible to you, but they're there. FLAC is a lossless codec that can preserve the quality of an original recording so that it's exactly as it was e.g. on the CD. But if you convert a poor quality MP3 to Flac, it's garbage in/garbage out--the poor quality doesn't magically get removed by converting to flac. | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 15:32 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Aug 4, 2012 at 13:58 | comment | added | AnonymousLurker | Converting from mp3 gets you worse quality, because mp3 is a lossy audio codec. | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 13:39 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 4, 2012 at 12:10 | comment | added | nohillside | I'll make an answer out of it then. Metadata might improve the conversion process but is not really required usually. | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 12:09 | answer | added | nohillside | timeline score: 27 | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 12:00 | comment | added | Cupidvogel | Ummm, I just tried, and it works! Thanks. I thought that I will always have to put some metadata pertaining to the conversion while converting from one format to another. | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 11:52 | comment | added | nohillside |
Did you try ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.flac already?
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| Aug 4, 2012 at 11:48 | history | asked | NedStarkOfWinterfell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |