thomsens;188706 Wrote: > The sample CD I chose was Santana's Shaman. So I guess this fits in the > "busy" category. For reference, the CD took up 519Mb for FLAC and it > was only 138Mb for extreme MP3 VBR. That's a 3.75 x the disk space, > which is amazing since the MP3 sounds great at that quality level.
More precise terms than busy might be random or noisy. I believe totally random data would sound like white noise and compress negligibly or not at all. I suspect instrumentation or effects that more closely resemble white noise reduce the incidence of data patterns that would offer opportunities for any lossless algorithm to compress. -- abdomen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ abdomen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1205 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33712 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
