Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Scott Brown
people on Audiocircle believe copying a file makes it sound worse... Sent from my iPhone On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Jud White wrote: Solar flares and aliens, mostly. Also I was joking to demonstrate the absurdity. I verified Ben's hypothesis, it is using VERBATIM. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Jud White
Solar flares and aliens, mostly. Also I was joking to demonstrate the absurdity. I verified Ben's hypothesis, it is using VERBATIM. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Mark Rudholm wrote: > Can you explain exactly how transferring a WAV file from one drive to > another results in degradation of aud

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Ben Allison
The FLAC standard allows for frames to be stored "as-is", specifically with the "SUBFRAME_VERBATIM" type - http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#subframe_verbatim Spoon's implementation is likely using this feature to store uncompressed data within a valid FLAC file that can be understood by any

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Jud White
Mark, > if your equipment can handle flac, why bother keeping WAVs at all? Hash codes were invented by people with a vested interest in so-called "lossless" compression. The truth is even copying a WAV file from one drive to another will result in degradation of audio quality. While SnakeOil Sof

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Rudholm
On 03/09/2012 08:14 AM, Martin Kos wrote: > On 09.03.2012 15:09, yahoo2 wrote: >> Uncompressed FLAC is called WAV. > really? ;-) > > the problem is that there is no standarized way to store metadata in a > WAVE file, like with FLAC tags / vorbis comments in flac files It seems like you can ad

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Casey McGinty
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:50 AM, yahoo2 wrote: > > So just use level 1. It's as close to uncompressed as the command > line will do. Besides, why would you want uncompressed? Much larger > files? I'd go 8 and have smaller files. > > Because they work for storage companies, and need to increase sal

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread yahoo2
At 11:14 AM 3/9/2012, Martin Kos wrote: >On 09.03.2012 15:09, yahoo2 wrote: > > Uncompressed FLAC is called WAV. >really? ;-) > >the problem is that there is no standarized way to store metadata in a >WAVE file, like with FLAC tags / vorbis comments in flac files > >greets > KoS So just use

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Vladimiro Macedo
What dbPowerAmp does is encapsulate the wav file into a FLAC container without actually compressing it. I guess it can be a bit arguable if you can technically call it a FLAC file :) It's like using "Store" mode in RAR, for instance. The idea behing this "uncompressed FLAC" is to give the FLAC t

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread Martin Kos
On 09.03.2012 15:09, yahoo2 wrote: > Uncompressed FLAC is called WAV. really? ;-) the problem is that there is no standarized way to store metadata in a WAVE file, like with FLAC tags / vorbis comments in flac files greets KoS ___ Flac mailing

Re: [Flac] uncompressed FLAC

2012-03-09 Thread yahoo2
At 09:11 AM 3/8/2012, Martin Kos wrote: >Hi > >i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software supports a >new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format, e.g. > >http://www.audiostream.com/content/dbpoweramps-flac-lossless-uncompressed-wish-come-true > >i know only the normal flac compress