Topic: wav>flac

[ArchivalAudio]

level 8  always
may take slightly longer encode but files are smaller
as previously stated...
--Ian

[pdastoor]

I always set it to level 8, never takes me long to convert. I have 4gb of ram and a dual core processor, kinda old pc but still does the work at a fast pace

[Shadow_7]

Space is cheap.  I don't even bother with flac anymore.  Wav vs. Flac isn't really a 2:1 ratio (I think I save like 40% space BITD), so why bother.  Sure if you have limited HDD space, but 2TB drives are approaching $100.  That's like 2,000 CDs or something like that, uncompressed.  Now for internet sharing and other things, it's significant since you're talking several hundred copies over an already slow connection.  And other I have the highest quality version, and that's my proof that they stole my work.  Otherwise why bother?

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

Space is cheap.  I don't even bother with flac anymore.  Wav vs. Flac isn't really a 2:1 ratio (I think I save like 40% space BITD), so why bother.  Sure if you have limited HDD space, but 2TB drives are approaching $100.  That's like 2,000 CDs or something like that, uncompressed.  Now for internet sharing and other things, it's significant since you're talking several hundred copies over an already slow connection.  And other I have the highest quality version, and that's my proof that they stole my work.  Otherwise why bother?

I have 5tb of lossless FLAC/SHNs on 3 HDDs (2x 2tb and 1x 1tb)...  Space is very much a premium for me...  That's why I bother...

YMMV...

Terry

[Shadow_7]

I have 3x 1TB HDDs and a couple 500GB ones, and that's just the external ones.  Still 500GB of breathing room, and audio only accounts for about 20% of my data packrat habits.  But I do have 700+ CDs that I haven't bothered taking off the optical formats yet.  Although I started to BITD and some of the songs with flac compression didn't play well.  So I stopped doing flacs altogether.  But that was a few years ago.