street_samurai Wrote: > Hi, > > According to some other threads Flac does not compress better than > Windows Lossless. I have never tested the theory myself so I couldn't > say. Really when you are talking about many files with such huge sizes, > a few kb here or there isn't going to make much of a difference anyway. > > <http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16867&highlight=flac+windows+lossless> > > As far as Flac compression options, do whatever you feel is best. > Almost everyone that uses flac tends to use settings from 4-6 because > higher settings vastly increase the encoding time and show a very poor > rate-of-return in terms of file size. > > Hope this helps, > > ss.
Thanks, I ran a few tests and 7 or 8 are very slow. The difference in encoding time from 3 to 6 is 21x to 18x not a big deal. 4 sound like a good compression to use. -- Kenr _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
