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Title: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: timP on October 10, 2005, 08:23:18 PM

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

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: bluegrass_brad on October 10, 2005, 08:28:04 PM

8 is the smallest.  There will be no difference in sound quality, only the file size. It is lossless either way you do it. 

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: timP on October 10, 2005, 08:29:14 PM

thanks 

+T

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: F.O.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!

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: BWolf on October 10, 2005, 08:32:37 PM

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)

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: timP on October 10, 2005, 08:32:59 PM

Bean

def interested in what you find...


keep on posting
your going to have 20,000  by the end of the week!.... 

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: bluegrass_brad on October 10, 2005, 08:34:08 PM

Quote from: tpoff on October 10, 2005, 08:29:14 PM

thanks 

+T

You got it and backatcha.

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: F.O.Bean on October 10, 2005, 08:36:51 PM

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)

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: MattD on October 10, 2005, 11:57:27 PM

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. :)

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: 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.

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: F.O.Bean on October 11, 2005, 02:22:29 AM

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!

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: Ed. on October 11, 2005, 02:26:34 AM

i usually stick with 6.

Title: Re: Quick FLAC ???
Post by: itook2much on October 11, 2005, 02:41:04 PM

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 ;)  ).