MrSinatra;326530 Wrote: > thats very cool. > > what compression ratio do you get with flac? i love that a 256 mp3 > will give me a 7 to 1 ratio, i can't tell the difference. > > still, i've been thinking about re-encoding some of my fave albums, > just a select few, as flac. do i need a flac exe for eac like i need > lame.exe? will i also need a flac dll the way i use a lame dll?
The current releases of EAC have the FLAC encoder in the package. It also has the configuration for the FLAC encoder already set up. I was never able to get it to work in older releases. You just hit <shift>F5 and you will have tagged FLAC as output. You can even configure the number of concurrent encoding processes. I stick with one on my machine even though it is hyperthreading. Perhaps a dual core machine would handle it better. I only use FLAC for my archive - my library that I listen to is mp3 so I can use it with my iPod. I encode at 192K and I really can't tell the difference. I've never sat down to do a scientific A/B test because I'm afraid I will hear a difference :-). But if I did, I'm sure it would be subtle. The compression ratio I get is on average probably around 40% - not even 2:1. But is still beats archiving uncompressed WAV data. -- maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50609 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
