[mr_bill]

Hi,
I'm using dbpoweramp converter/encoder to convert some of my files that won't play on my SB3 (slimserver won't play MP$'s for some strange reason).
I'm converting from MP4 to either WAV (in 24/96 if I'm doing this right) or FLAC.
Is one or the other better as far as performance goes or doens't it matter?
Does Itunes read FLAC?  I know slimserver does.
Thanks,
Bill

[kfr01]

WAV and FLAC are both lossless.  The decoded audio streams should be identical.

[smccull]

Of course WAV is uncompressed, so they'll take up more space on your hard drive. But you shouldn't hear any difference. I use FLAC on my SB2 and am quite pleased.

[mr_bill]

From what I can tell, Itunes won't recognize and play FLAC files but it will play WAV files.  Is this right???

[JoshK]

Its been said before, that FLAC allows you to have tags, WAV doesn't, so this means if you are playing the files on some sort of player that reads tags, the WAVs won't have any display info except the file name, the FLACs will.  FLACs are smaller and like others said are lossless, so the data is exactly the same. 

[Tirade]

The easiest way to describe a FLAC file is to equate it to a zip file.

We can all agree that when you unzip a file you have the original file once again. FLAC is essentially a zipped up music file. Your player unzips it while it plays and rezips it when its done (not exactly, but you get the point).

[miklorsmith]

Seven pages of same topic at Slimdevices forum:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32999

Several of the posters say .wav sounds better to them.  There's no consensus nor definitive explanation of why that would be.  A few folks took a run at it though.