Mark Lanctot;390946 Wrote: > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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.
Great - thanks for the explanation. I was just wondering if lossless encoding always gave you lossless decoding on squeezebox given the different reported bitrates. Next question - what is 'bandwidth' and does this have an effect on streaming flac files wirelssly to squeezebox? If so what do I need to look out for? Thx again -- ste1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ste1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23522 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40446 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
