The compression level is really only just a convenient shortcut for
humans to use when creating a flac file. The real values used during
compression include Max LPC order, blocksize, Rice partition order
(min,)max, exhaustive model search flag, and mid-side or Adaptive mid-
side coding flags. As you can see, there are a lot of parameters and
options, to the compression level just represents common
combinations. You can't store the level in the metadata because you
can create a tuned flac file without any compression level at all.
Another thing to consider is that compression level 8 is not always
the best for every file.
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
On Jul 5, 2007, at 02:41, Harry Sack wrote:
Why isn't the compression level added in a metadata block by the
flac encoder itself (just like the encoder version)? In this way
all programs that read the file can see what compression level was
used.
thx
2007/7/4, Scot Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This has been asked many times. The answer is no. I suggest
saving the compression level into a tag for future reference, but
that won't help you with files you get from unknown locations.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Harry Sack
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Flac] FLAC: getting compression level using metaflac
Hi FLAC list!
I have a question (maybe a strange one) about getting the
compression level (0-8) using metaflac.
So I want to know for a given FLAC file what compression level was
used to compress that file.
I tried using the --list option but this doesn't give any
information about this.
Is there a way to get the compression level of a given FLAC file
using metaflac or another tool?
thx
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