Well for single albums, mine seem to vary between pretty small and very large:
164M /media2/Flac/Enya/Watermark to 689M /media2/Flac/Fish/Mixed Company (This CD is so long that I can't rip the last track, and I've tried 4 different DVD drives on Linux and Windows... It's also a live recorded CD, so is probably not as "clean" as a studio CD, I guess this could affect the compression ratio.) Overall the largest "album" is: 1.5G /media2/Flac/Yes/Keys to Ascension (which is a 4-disc set - I rip and tag multi-disc albums as if they were one long album). About 380 of 509 albums are less than 400MB, and on a first analysis they seem to be fairly evenly distributed through the range. On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 09:01 -0700, radish wrote: > > I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my > > compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between > > 200-400MB > > Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;) > More seriously, I think it must have to do with the type of music. I > always see people saying that you get decent compression with FLAC, and > that albums come in at 300MB or so, but the majority of mine seem to be > 500 or higher. I have a number around 600 - seems like very little > compression going on there. It's my personal theory (backed up by very > little evidence) that it depends on the level of dynamics within the > music. > > -- "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
