In theory that really shouldn't change anything, since your basically just compressing the .wav file, but in a lossless format that is playable as a flac sound file, and then uncompressing it back into what it was. But the Flac files from A New Hope (and the .wav files from them after uncompressing them) that boba feta posted worked fine with winamp, so I thought I'd give it a try. Sure enough, after compressing the ESB .wav file into a big flac file, it played fine as a flac file on winamp, and then when I uncompressed that flac back into a .wav file, it also played perfectly in winamp.
I'm not sure why this is the case, but when I was compressing the .wav file into a flac file, I saw a message that said something like "1 general error". But the process went ahead just fine and finished. And the files, both flac and .wav from the uncompressed flac file seem to play perfectly in winamp. I checked the sizes of the two .wav files, the one straight and unaltered from the .rar files boba feta posted, and the one I got after compressing the original .wav file into a flac file and then uncompressing it back into a .wav file. And there is a tiny difference in file sizes, the .wav file that was in flac form before being uncompressed is about 1k smaller than the original .wav file. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the original .wav file had a missing tag or something in the file, and this is what caused the error with winamp, but when putting the file into flac the form, the flac compression program automatically added the missing tag and thus eliminated any problems that winamp might have playing the file from then on.
What do you guys think, any ideas on what might have happened with this .wav file and why it works after being put into flac form and then back to a .wav file?