Topic: Flac Question

[johnw]

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. 

[thoman8r]

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