Hi On 08.03.2012 18:50, Ralph Giles wrote: >> i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software >> supports a new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format > > I expect this is just encoding every block as 'SUBFRAME_VERBATIM'. > I'm not aware of a switch on the normal flac encoder to do this, but > it would be straightforward to add. This feature already exists in > the format because there are occassional input blocks where the > compression algorithm produces larger output than the input, so it's > better just to store the equivalent data untransformed. File > compression tools like gzip have a similar mode. thanks for the details, interesting to know.
> I wouldn't worry about it though. It's unfortunate the dbPowerAmp > developers want to take advantage of the subset of customer who > don't understand what 'lossless' means. yeah i know. if the size of the media doesn't matter, but metadata should be included, than this would be a possibility. i myself don't believe that there is a hearable difference if you play a lossless file (as it is byte-wise the same), but if some customers are willing to pay for something where they think they can hear a difference, than why not? :-) greets KoS _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
