Greetings,
I'm in the process of re-ripping my cd collection (previously Mp3) and have been playing with WAV and FLAC settings in an effort to determine which format I like best. After reading a recent post here on J River, I believe the best option based on the very good discussions will be FLAC.
But, I have a question regarding the displayed bitrate shown in J River's display. The WAV files always show a bitrate of 1411 while the FLAC files are showing lower and varying bitrates across many tracks. When playing the various tracks, both WAV and FLAC, the "Display" at the top the JR Media Center shows playback is at 44.1 kHz. So, I assume as a laymen that regardless of the shown bitrate in the rip, they are both being played at a 1411 (cd quality) bitrate and the audio quality is therefore identical.
Am I correct in this assumption, and if so, why does the FLAC track info show lower and differing bitrates verses the WAV files? Does this matter?
Also, I ripped several disks with a FLAC compression setting of "6" and again at "0" looking for the change in size - both settings ripped to the same size. Shouldn't the tracks ripped at "6" be smaller then the tracks ripped at "0"?
Thanks for your comments,
Rock