I decided to bt a show as flac and it was pointed out that another source fileset is about 100MB larger. I recorded the show as 44.1 wav on my JB3, transferred it to my laptop via firewire, cut up the tracks with cdwave and added fades with SF5. I used frontend to encode at the default setting of 5. So why would another source from the same show (also supposedly at 44.1) be 100MB larger? That's around 20 minutes. I didn't cut out that much crowd noise and my levels couldn't have been that much lower! All files are accounted for in the fileset. ???
It could be that they used something lower than 5. Also, I don't think the compressed ratio is necessarily always proportional to the uncompressed size. There are other factors that can determine the amount of compression.
Dave