#which one is best .flac Or .wav

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past lynx
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Which format is best for preparing a dataset? .wav Or .flac? What is the difference between these formats?

shrewd turret
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not sure myself but i jsut use wav, wav basically from what i understand tries to get as much data as possible from an audio

past lynx
shrewd turret
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not sure havent really tried flac

past lynx
shrewd turret
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yup

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i think most audio file extensions will work

shrewd summit
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both are lossless, either or, flac will save you space

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but saving a flac of a lossy audio source, like say an mp3 you download off youtube, wont make it higher quality

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its preferable to just, dunk to wav/flac to not suffer any more reencoding losses using lossy formats like mp3 / aac, etc

shrewd turret
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iirc ytdlp downloads from youtube as m4a right?

shrewd summit
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which is a container, aac is the codec

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much akin to how .mp4, is a container

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and it generally stores an h264 video stream

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and aac audio

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mp4 itself, isnt a free or open source container

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(m4a is included under the mp4 standard)

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theres infinitely more rabbit hole snake oil to keeping audio perfect, but, i recommend getting a fair dac, even the goofy little type c ones will be good enough to drive some iems

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and just getting some neutral-ish iems

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because every audio setup technically 'flavors' how it sounds, for better or for worse, in terms of mastering or critical listening, typically worse

past lynx
shrewd summit
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i said it

past lynx
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Mark it as solved 👍