Just was wondering if level 1 or 8 was the smallest?
and while your at it, how much better/worse do you think the sound quality is either way?
isn't supposed to be lossless either way?...
just looking at 30+ shows I have taking up alot of space on my HD
thanks
8 is the smallest. There will be no difference in sound quality, only the file size. It is lossless either way you do it.
thanks
+T
im doing a compare list of diff flac levels to prove how small of an improvemnet level 8 is compared to how slow it is :)
starting now!
Quote from: Bean on October 10, 2005, 08:30:17 PM
im doing a compare list of diff flac levels to prove how small of an improvemnet level 8 is compared to how slow it is :)
starting now!
bean, you got way to much time on your hands. can't you find something better to do with you time :smoking2: ;D 8)
Bean
def interested in what you find...
keep on posting
your going to have 20,000 by the end of the week!....
well, ive been waiting to start my new job for a couple weeks, just waiting on the call to start 8) :smoking:
well, w/ all the geeky shit on this site, I figured why not 8)
Quote from: Bean on October 10, 2005, 08:30:17 PM
im doing a compare list of diff flac levels to prove how small of an improvemnet level 8 is compared to how slow it is :)
starting now!
If you have enough time to do that, you can encode at level 8. :)
I did some comparisons a while back between 6 an 8. I did only single files though and not whole shows but the difference was not that big. I used to always use 8 but it takes fucking forever.
Quote from: Gordon on October 11, 2005, 01:20:07 AM
I did some comparisons a while back between 6 an 8. I did only single files though and not whole shows but the difference was not that big. I used to always use 8 but it takes fucking forever.
yep, i just tested and had a nice post for ts.com on comps, and it got erased before i could post it somehow :(
\but anyway, the biggest difference was between 1 and 3, l;ets say the original wav was 707 MB, the flac-6 was 458 MB and the flac-3 was 458 MB(same damn compression) but the flac-1 was like 470 MB(12 MB diff from 3/6), and then the flac-8 was only 1 MB higher than the flac-6, at 459 MB
so no huge differences unless youre running flac level 1
personally, IMO, i think your best bet is flac 6 because of encoding speed and decoding speed, flac-8 takes my comp too long to encode on, but I dont know about yours!
i usually stick with 6.
Level 8 really doesn't take me that much longer, and any space saved is space saved IMO.
And it decodes at the same speed.
So use level 8 & go have a smoke while you wait (your call as to what level smoke ;) ).