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Is there any quality loss by burning FLAC's to audio CD?

fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,734
edited October 2007 in Technical Stuff and Help
The reason I ask is:

1) It's always good to have a good audio CD as backup for any music, as you can play them anywhere

2) I want to rip from the CD and great high quality (256kbps) mp3's for the fanchPod

So, if I do this, will I lose any of the quality of the FLACs when I burn to audio CD? I realize there is some loss when I go from audio CD to mp3, but since I rip at 256 that shouldn't be a huge deal.

Any takers?
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    flac>wav>cd ok!!

    cd/flac>mp3 slight loss in quality


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format
  • fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    I skip the whole .wav thing with Winamp, as it burns FLAC's directly to audio CD.

    Perhaps Winamp converts to .wav, and then burns to CD, and this process is invisible to the Winamp user?
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    fanch75 wrote:
    I skip the whole .wav thing with Winamp, as it burns FLAC's directly to audio CD.

    Perhaps Winamp converts to .wav, and then burns to CD, and this process is invisible to the Winamp user?

    ah winamp....i don't use it personally but the process is the same so you're jiggy.....:)
  • Bangers_n_mashBangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    Burning the flac to cd is grand and you won't lose any sound quality.

    Supposing you were to rip new flacs from this audio cd. It's possible that there would some very minor errors compared to the original flacs. This would be negligible really.

    You could extract mp3 at 256kbps directly from the flac you know.
    I'm not sure about the software but it should be easy to get.
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  • hguz73hguz73 Posts: 245
    No it doesn't and if it loses quality its unperceptible
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