Topic: Surreal CDWAVE activity

[kskreider]

This is like something out of the friggin Twilight Zone.

I have a 875MB set that is a FLAC'd 24/48 wav file (8-maximum).

I opened the file in CDWAVE 1.93 Beta 3 so I could lop off the last third of the set to get the first part onto a CD-R for archiving.  When I split the file I then save it using FLAC output, 8-maximum and this it what it does:

The first 2/3 of the set is 975MB in size and the second 1/3 is 323MB in size.  

WTF?  

How can an 875MB file all of a sudden become 1300MB just from spitting it in two?

I tried no conversion and it makes it some sort of .wav file even though the original is FLAC2448.  

Any ideas?  I'd like to get these large files off of my HD sometime soon.  I know the damn thing will do it because it worked fine on the 24/48 FLAC files I did last week.

Damn, I need a DVD-R.

...Kk

[mgleason007]

How does a 1.2 GB file become 4 or 5 CD's in FLAC?  And you've figured it out... the file is 1.2 GB and not 875 MB.

If you chose "no compression" what would you like it to come out as?  The only thing that's not compressed would be wav, which you could then make into a DVD-A (i think).

[F.O.Bean]

yeah, i noticed this, when splitting in cdwave, it unflacs the wav to a wav, then in the conversion box, put it to flac and i bet your set is the original lenght!!

[F.O.Bean]

hmmm, i have nbo clue bro, it SHOULD be about 50% smaller whether its a 16 bit or 24 bit file, FLAC reduces size by about half, i have no clue, the new flac has been werking wonderfully for me so far

hope everything werks out

[Cooker]

why not un-flac it, split the wavs, then re-flac the wav's?