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[–] Scoopta 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

But CDs are lossless to start? Raw PCM is raw digital audio data, it's completely uncompressed lossless audio so transcoding to flac is the most sensible thing to do. The flac will just be transcoded back to raw PCM for output anyway, as raw PCM is what audio hardware accepts for playback.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

100% right.