Hi all.
I dont very well understand the technical aspects of FLAC/WAV, however I have used FLAC frontend for a while. To cut a long story short, I lost 100 gig worth of FLAC and WAV files. On the positive side it looks like I have recovered most of my WAV masters. I am in the process of converting to FLAC for burning. However all the WAV files are unreadable by audio software and FLAC without hinting to what the format is. ie with FLAC

ERROR: for encoding a raw file you must specify a value for --endian, --sign, --
channels, --bps, and --sample-rate

I have came up with some arguments which work.

FOR %%c in (*.wav) DO C:\PROGRA~1\flac\FLAC.exe -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 12 -e -q 0 -r 0,6 --endian little --sign signed --channels 2 --sample-rate 44100 --bps 16 %%c


It seems to work, but with very very good compression ratios. maybe 30 -40 %. I am kind of worried I am doing something wrong and losing some data. They are definately 44.1khz and I am pretty sure the rest of the arguments are accurate.

Any reassurance from anyone?

TIA

Norm

Thats either a very stupid or very hard question, I suspect the former.
Any pointers? PLEASE?

I suggest using Speek's FLAC frontend, http://members.home.nl/w.speek/
It's much easier to use and saves you the trouble of checking what's wrong with your command line