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.

[Heemlock]

Hello!
Should i re-encode a libFLAC 1.1.3 encoded FLAC file to libFLAC 1.2.1 (the latest) with foobar2k?
Is there any benefit of doing this or should i leave it as it is?

[mjb2006]

I don't see anything of note in the changelog between those versions. It's not like a lossy codec where the sound can change from version to version. The output is always the same, even if there are internal changes to the FLAC file's structure. There were improvements in the compression algorithms, but it's all backward compatible. And there was a security issue, but it only applies to decoding specially crafted FLACs. Nothing is wrong with the ones you created with 1.1.x. Recompressing would just be a waste of time.

This post has been edited by mjb2006: Oct 18 2011, 13:05