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Title: using Flac frontend what is the best encoding level?
Post by: vegeta_ban on January 07, 2009, 09:25:11 PM

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

Title: Re: using Flac frontend what is the best encoding level?
Post by: dorrcoq on January 07, 2009, 10:58:55 PM

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.

Title: Re: using Flac frontend what is the best encoding level?
Post by: bhtoque on January 08, 2009, 12:34:49 AM

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

Title: Re: using Flac frontend what is the best encoding level?
Post by: Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B) on January 08, 2009, 01:00:14 AM

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

Title: Re: using Flac frontend what is the best encoding level?
Post by: boojum on January 08, 2009, 02:32:36 AM

^^^^ For when you need that extra little bit to push them over the edge.    8)