Why isn't the compression level added in a metadata block by the flac
encoder itself (just like the encoder version)? In this way all programs
that read the file can see what compression level was used.
thx
2007/7/4, Scot Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This has been asked many times. The
What difference does it make?
Harry Sack wrote:
Why isn't the compression level added in a metadata block by the flac
encoder itself (just like the encoder version)? In this way all programs
that read the file can see what compression level was used.
thx
2007/7/4, Scot Thompson [EMAIL
The compression level is really only just a convenient shortcut for
humans to use when creating a flac file. The real values used during
compression include Max LPC order, blocksize, Rice partition order
(min,)max, exhaustive model search flag, and mid-side or Adaptive mid-
side coding
somebody asked about this last week - not sure
if they were linux or not (work on cygwin too!)
shntool does this for you but only i did it just
as an exercise (or didn't have shntool at the time?)
also it prints total in hh:mm which i sometimes need
instead of mmm:ss
one recent mod i had to
