Right now I’m in the process of optimizing storage for my large dataset. So I’m converting WAV files to FLAC because FLAC is the lossless, more efficient equivalent.

Now to the question’s context: my initial ML model was trained using WAV files.

What would happen if I use FLAC files for test data? Would the output be the same with the equivalent WAV files? Or is transcoding from FLAC back to WAV inevitable?

Thanks in advance.