In Reply to: RE: Another solution is to split the CD image into separate files posted by mike1127 on January 28, 2015 at 11:44:59:
Yes, FLAC will do a complete reencoding. Among other reasons, it has to do this to verify and generate the checksum that verifies the FLAC file was not corrupted. One can also reencode a FLAC file with a different compression level and again, first it will be decoded and then it will be encoded.
With MP3, there can be problems with getting gapless playback that is glitch free. That's because MP3 throws away information based on context. In contrast, lossless CODECs do not throw away information. They build a model (predictor) of the likely samples, but even if the predictor is wrong they will still produce the correct output (but less compressed) because they encode the difference between the prediction and reality.
Tony Lauck
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