MrSinatra;525323 Wrote: > in response to the original post, my understanding is that flac, at a -8 > setting, (which is what i use), will turn a wav into about 60% of its > orig filesize. > > in EAC, in compression settings, there is a dropdown for bitrate. EAC > uses that to calculate compression sizes that you see in the normal rip > screen. i set mine at like 888kbps or something like that for flac, b/c > it has no technical effect on flac, it just gives a more accurate > approximation on the rip screen, (or so i am to understand). if your > flac is actually able to turn a big wav into 1/5th its size, (look in > windows explorer), thats news to me, but i'm sure Jim is correct in what > he's saying. > > Jim, > > when i was looking for a command line for EAC for myself, as i > mentioned here is what i found: > > -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T > "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s > > however i found another line that some people were saying was "better" > but didn't indicate why or what any of it meant: > > -8 -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 -V -T "artist=%a" -T > "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" > %s --sector-align > > any idea what that is? is it better?
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