Tying FLAC's file size reduction capacity to "how busy the music is" is a reasonably accurate correlation. Another good example is sending a fax.
If you send a plain white sheet of paper by fax, the transmission is much faster. Essentially, your machine just tells the other machine to pull a white sheet of paper through at the other end. Any writing or images on the page are sent as black dots that need to be printed. So to send one black dot via fax, imagine your machine sends the command to the other machine to "print one black dot 3.1 inches from the top and 2.4 inches in from the left margin." The more black on the page of the fax, the more commands that need to be sent. (Hence, the old "black fax of death" if you wanted to tie someone's machine up. Not recommended since they can trace it back to you.) FLAC is similar. A WAV file needs just as much file space to record silence as it does a loud and complex piece. FLAC does this more efficiently, but there are types of music and passages in FLAC that take up almost as much file space as a WAV. Sounds like the music you're saving in FLAC format simply doesn't compress well. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33712 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
