Topic: using Flac frontend what is the best encoding level?

[vegeta_ban]

I am transfering all my waves to a 1 tb hard drive for backup and making hard copy dvd backups of these files. What is the best encoding level for 44.1 kHz 16 bit wav files to flac?

thanks

i'm using flac frontend on windows xp

[dorrcoq]

Level 8 is the slowest.  The higher the level the smaller the resulting file, although not a huge difference if you are more concerned with speed than space.

[bhtoque]

It used to be that the consensus was 6 or 7 were best because 8 took too long for a very small improvement, but with system speed what it is now I can't see a reason not to encode at 8.

Also never got the 1 to 8 scale. What's wrong with 9 and 10???

JAson

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

I hear the next version of FLAC will "go to 11."

[boojum]

^^^^ For when you need that extra little bit to push them over the edge.