btooze;181458 Wrote: > If Flac is "lossless" why is there a compression setting?
FLAC is compressed like a .zip file. The compression setting determines how hard the processor has to work to compress it. Obviously the harder it works the smaller the resulting file, but it makes encoding/compressing slower - in the case of compression level 8, much slower for not much more space saving. This got better in FLAC 1.1.3 and even better in the new FLAC 1.1.4. Level 8 is a lot faster now than it was in 1.1.2. > > When I did my Cdex VBR rips, I used the CDDB which tagged my rips > automatically. I have tried to do the same using Cdex and Flac but no > tag information is stored. > > I have read that Flac does not like ID3 tag data. Does this mean that I > cannot use CDDB and I have to tag all my discs manually. I don't use CDex but I'm surprised it can't tag FLACs. It sure should be able to. If that's the case, I definitely won't be trying CDex. > On a different issue, why use ReplayGain when you can "normalise" the > track during the ripping process. Normalization permanently alters the files and is irreversible. The files no longer resemble what was on the CD. In that case, what's the point of lossless? On the other hand, RG is just a tag - the audio data is not altered. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32865 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
