ste1;390936 Wrote: > However when I steam to Squeezebox duet the display on the controller > tells me the files are still 16 bit but have a VBR of considerably less > than 1411kbps of approx 900. It does n't tell me sample rate.
That's FLAC doing what it's supposed to do - compressing (losslessly). You will get anywhere from 800 - 1100 kbps, depending on the complexity of the source material. Nothing has been lost, FLAC just found a way to convey the exact same data using a lower bitrate through some complex mathematical techniques. > What is difference between VBR, CBR and ABR in flac/wav terms and does > it even matter? Doesn't even matter. Strictly speaking, FLAC is VBR, it varies its bitrate depending on the complexity of the music at a certain point. WAV is CBR, it's 1411 kbps all the time. WAV ABR and WAV CBR as reported by the Squeezebox is just a slight reporting error, it's all CBR. > I just thought flac would decode itself back to the original 1411kbps > bitrate as is ts supposedly a lossless format? It does. Provided you don't encounter something known as padding (where FLAC lengthens the file to provide space for tags) the two files will decode identically bit-for-bit. You can demonstrate this multiple ways and FLAC has a comprehensive test to prove this, but really, lossless is lossless. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta), SBC (early beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40446 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
