Mark Scanlan;525507 Wrote: > Is there any advantage in doing that? I gather flac calls on few > processing resources when going the other way, which might avoid > playback issues on storage units with little processing power; but > perhaps level 5 is OK for this.
No advantage. In your first post you said you didn't need compression, so that's how you could do it while still using the FLAC file format with its metadata tagging. It's just not widely known. > EAC shows that the 8:21 second 1st track "Trio for violin, cello and > piano" by Chopin and performed by Ax, Frank and Yo-Yo Ma is 84.24MB. > After ripping to flac using level 0 Windows explorer says the file is > 37.127MB or 44 percent of the original size. Ok, 56% compression is fairly normal. I see anywhere from 30% to 60% compression. It depends a lot on the audio being encoded. > I shoved in another CD; EAC shows the first track to be 32.88MB. The > ripped version in flac is 14.758 as shown in XP Explorer, or 44.9 > percent of the original size. In each case I am getting the CD file size > from EAC and the ripped flac size from XP Explorer, although I also have > Media Centre and it shows the same flac file size. Same 56%. Normal. > This seems like more compression than I have been lead to believe ... > especially since I used the leased flac compression option. Try ripping a couple of tracks with -8, the highest level of compression and -5, the default level, then compare the resulting file sizes. You probably won't find a lot of difference. That's the reason I simply use the default level and never worry about it. > Are these file sizes reasonable given that flac level 0 was used and > they are meant to be lossless? Yes. It must be the nature of the music being compressed. Some music lends itself much more to the algorithms being used, and some much less. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76217 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
