Toy Maker;638339 Wrote: > I will also do a little testing/listening of FLAC vs. wav files vs. CDs > in the next week or so. > Again, i don't expect to be able to hear a difference. But I want to > cover all my bases before showing up unprepared, and look stupid and > have anyone tell me "see we told you CDs were better" > > Approximately what % of space is saved using FLAC files over the raw > wav files?
FLAC files are 50% to 60% of the WAV file. So you cut the space needs in half. Most think you should use the 5 level of "compression" with FLAC (or lower). This is because there are *some* decoders that struggle more with decoding the maximum compression (8), and there is not much real space saving going from 5 to 8. It may be fixed now, but some SB users reported problems with 24/96 FLAC files when they were encoded at 8 but no issues when encoded at 5. I've never had any issues with 16/44.1 FLAC files encoded at 8, but I've since started ripping everything at "5" anyhow. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88364 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
