Tool guide
People keep FLAC for archiving: it compresses audio losslessly and takes about half the space of the source. The trouble starts when a program only understands PCM — an old plugin, recorder firmware, an analysis script or a video editor's built-in importer. This page unwraps the container back into WAV: the browser decodes the stream and the tool assembles a plain file from the samples. Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded.
The FLAC-to-PCM step itself discards nothing — the format is lossless and the samples come back in full. The caveat is that decoding runs through the browser audio engine, which resamples material to the sound card rate. You will not hear a difference, but do not expect a bit-exact match with the original.
No. The output uses whatever rate the system audio output runs at, most often 48 kHz, and the bit depth is normalised to the engine's format. That is fine for editing, listening and feeding scripts. For an exact studio master at the original resolution, unpack the archive with a desktop decoder.
Usually the browser rather than the file: Chrome, Edge and Firefox have decoded FLAC for years, older Safari versions have not. Unusual variants also get in the way — FLAC inside an Ogg container, files with very large blocks, or truncated downloads. Try another browser before calling the archive corrupt.
Roughly double, since that is about what FLAC saves in the first place. Densely mixed music expands about twofold; speech with pauses can triple, because the silence compressed especially well. Budget around 10 MB per minute of stereo and check you have the disk space first.
No, the field takes one file at a time: pick an archive, convert, download, then press «Reset» before the next. For a handful of tracks that beats configuring a batch utility; for an entire library, use a desktop converter with a queue.
No. WAV is a container for raw audio, so Vorbis Comment metadata and embedded artwork do not carry over. That is fine for a working file headed into an editor, but keep the original FLAC — it holds all the album, track and artist information.
Before: album-03.flac, 5 minutes, 28 MB
After: album-03.wav, roughly 55 MB — drops onto a timeline with no plugin needed
Before: kick.flac, a short hit, mono
After: kick.wav — readable by a device that only understands PCM
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