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Converting FLAC to WAV and keeping tags?

Having read about and then experienced an audible difference between FLAC and WAV files it looks like I am going to have to decompress my 4000+ painstakingly organized and tagged albums...

However, the metadata, at least as recognized by foobar, seems to be stripped in conversion to WAV with DBpoweramp--Artist, album, genre etc. fields are blank. Is there any fix for this? What are my options?
abdodson

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doggiehowser
672 posts
 
I just stuck to AIFF which supports meta data and is uncompressed lossless.

Some have had good results with FLAC set at 0 compression.

WAV does support meta data now IIRC but getting the software that supports it seems to be difficult.
doggiehowser
672 posts
 
Actually it's either they hear no difference at all or WAV sounds better.
doggiehowser
672 posts
 
AIFF is fairly universal. Like WAV, it is derived from an old Amiga IFF format and stores the data in lossless uncompressed.
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