triceratops wrote:
> What's the difference (other than encoding speed) between -5 and -8
> compression?  I thought FLAC was lossless.

It is lossless. The settings tell the encoder how hard to try to squeeze
a couple more percent out of the compression. It takes longer and may
save a tiny bit.

Unlike with MP3 or other lossy codecs, flac's setting makes no
difference in sound quality, and not much on compression size


-- 
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/

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