sorry but I have the FLAC front end and FLAC exe command line on Windows XP- can I encode a WAV (16 bit or even 24 bit) as a 24 bit FLAC? I tried --bps=24 but has no effect, just writes 16 bit FLAC ? If it can be done on command line can you give me an example string?

Thanks

FLAC will not change original audio file, so the resulting file will have the same bit-depth as the original.

Hi Egor thanks for reply. so can you tell me what is the purpose of the --bps=n switch ? Is it for decoding , only as a raw file?

No idea, but I'd guess its so that you can force a different bit depth if you wanted to for some reason.

--bps is only used to tell the encoder the sample depth when the input is raw pcm.