tass Wrote: > The style of music can definately affect how well files compress. I've > noticed on the highest compression of FLAC that pop/rock/normal(?) > music compresses high 60s to mid 70% ratio. Things like classical music > that have a lot of low-volume, silent or single instrument sections can > compress much better than this and can even get to sub 50%.
Noise is also a lot harder to compress than pure tones. My time series professor used to argue that if you look at the frequency spectrum of rock and roll, it looks a lot more like noise than classical music does! -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18174 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
