seanadams;279470 Wrote: > In addition to halving the streaming rate, it also effectively doubles > the buffer size. > > Also if you have to copy a music collection from one hard drive to > another, even if space is free, drive throughput is quite limited and > having it half the size makes it much more manageable. > > Basically there is every reason to use FLAC and no reason not to use > it, even if storage were free. The CPU cost is negligible but the > bandwidth savings and metadata support are huge advantages.
This is significant... Are you guys doing backup's. I'm paranoid when it comes to backup of my stuff on the hard drives. If you have a few thousand CD's and you want to do a backup of the whole collection to an external drive for safekeeping, this takes a long time.... Using flac effectively doubles the efficiency of the backup. I don't want to wait forever for a backup to complete. -H -- haraldo Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop / SC7 -> SB3 -> Benchmark DAC1 -> Krell KAV400xi -> Meadowlark Kestrel2 / Duntech PCL-15 Everything is difficult before it's easy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ haraldo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44532 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
