Old flac version to last version Options

[Yuna]

Hi,


Again the search box never give me results but always give me the first page of subforums.

Then i will ask my question here.

I use foobar2k v.9.6.9 as audio player (default)

My music library contains mostly flac files and some lossy files.

My flac files are mostly to latest version (libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917) because they are ripped of my own cds.

But some are in the oldest version such as (libFLAC 1.1.2 20050205) or (libFLAC 1.1.4 20070213).

I want them to last version. What is the procedure I do?

I tried of convert back in wav theses flac files but for each tracks i keep receive this message : "Corrupted flac stream" (with foobar2k). what that means ?

thx for help a novice.

[greynol]

Of this metadata support, how much of this can't be added to an already existing flac file encoded with an older version?

Next question, how useful is the metadata that can't be added (assuming there is some that can't) for a transcode? I mean the data wasn't in the older version of the file to begin with, right?

Encoding speed changes buy you nothing since the files are already encoded. I don't believe that files encoded with newer versions decode any faster (but I could be wrong).

Compression gains really aren't going to be all that worthwhile, IMO; certainly nothing like switching over to another format, like TAK, for instance.

Seems like the computing cycles, hard drive usage and the carbon released in the environment as a result would be better spent on other tasks.