$ ls -l a.wav -rw-r--r-- 1 rootboy None 30587804 Jan 7 23:00 a.wav $ flac -v flac 1.2.1
$ type flac flac is hashed (/usr/bin/flac) $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DFBJ7M51 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin $ flac -f a.wav a.wav: wrote 16323314 bytes, ratio=0.534 $ flac -l8 -f a.wav a.wav: wrote 16323314 bytes, ratio=0.534 $ flac -l5 -f a.wav a.wav: wrote 16398095 bytes, ratio=0.536 $ flac ... flac - Command-line FLAC encoder/decoder version 1.2.1 -# is -0 (fastest compression) to -8 (highest compression); -5 is the default ==================================================== a side question is: -l8 is slower to encode but how about on decode? i notice on both my winblows (winamp) and linux (xmms) box if there are a few things going on other than sound playing that i'll hear small delay at track transition (but then if i go back to same transition again it goes away since file now in file cache i guess - so i wonder if a quick workaround would be to do a "head" on all the files you are going to play?) _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list Flac@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac