Any data/quality loss at compressing waw fiels with winrar?

[Touch The Universe]

Flac can also be converted back to wave and by converting them to this format his file would probably be much less than what it would be for winrar. Thing is another app would be required for that I think which is just another tedious step his recipient might not want to take.

Do you think converting stems from WAV to FLAC and back to WAV again won't affect the audio?

YES! Flac is lossless Thats the whole point of flac Are we on the same page?

[xNiMiNx]

Rar / Zip / 7z, it wont affect the files inside, if it does, the files are broken.

I wish more audio players supported compressed files. Foobar2000 can play audio files within ZIP and RAR archives (typically compressed) directly, i.e. without requiring the user to extract the files first. More archive formats are supported via additional components: LHA/LZH, 7-Zip, JMA.

This way you can have wav, flac, whatever you want, while at the same time saving space, keeping albums / stems in a neat single file as well.

[Numanoid]

This way you can have wav, flac, whatever you want, while at the same time saving space, keeping albums / stems in a neat single file as well.

+1 With the processing power of most computers these days, it should be possible.

I remember back in the day, when it took half a day to covert an audio CD to mp3

[Touch The Universe]

Rar / Zip / 7z, it wont affect the files inside, if it does, the files are broken.

I wish more audio players supported compressed files. Foobar2000 can play audio files within ZIP and RAR archives (typically compressed) directly, i.e. without requiring the user to extract the files first. More archive formats are supported via additional components: LHA/LZH, 7-Zip, JMA.

This way you can have wav, flac, whatever you want, while at the same time saving space, keeping albums / stems in a neat single file as well.

fl studio and vlc do as well

[Numanoid]

Sadly Kontakt doesn't read FLAC files

[thecontrolcentre]

Flac can also be converted back to wave and by converting them to this format his file would probably be much less than what it would be for winrar. Thing is another app would be required for that I think which is just another tedious step his recipient might not want to take.

Do you think converting stems from WAV to FLAC and back to WAV again won't affect the audio?

YES! Flac is lossless Thats the whole point of flac Are we on the same page?

I stand corrected. I was unaware that FLAC could handle 24 and 32 bit files ... I thought it was 16 bit only