Greetings All,
I was doing a bit experimentation with a song I got off of HDTracks that is a 24 Bit/96 .wav file. I was playing around with the .flac with this file and something isn't adding up right. Using FLAC Frontend 2.0, I converted the file and was able to encode/decode the file and I got the same size of 110MB. The FLAC copy shows up in musicbee as a 24/96 file like it should under properties.
Wav = 110MB
FLAC = 66.5MB
Decoded size= 110
Now when I take the original wav file and try to use the format converter within musicbee to send to flac, I think its downgrading it to 16 Bit /96 because my resulting sizes are as follows. The properties say 96 khz under the sample rate but where it used to say 24 bit, it says nothing now.
Wav= 110
FLAC = 28.6
Decoded size= 72.6
Any ideas on whats going on. I have tried quite a bit of different command options and the downsample option in the Format Converter is unchecked so I don't think it should be doing this unless I have overlooked something. Any help is appreciated.
FLAC Version is 1.30 and Musicbee is 2.4.5270