I am a newbie and I want to encode some wavs using FLAC Frontend.
I see many settings and 'Level' kept my attention.
As I know, FLAC is a lossless encoding format, and I see from my
tests that Level affects file size and bitrate.
What is the meaning of it? Is there any difference in sound quality
or just compression and/or CPU usage?
The latter: the higher the level, the better the compression - that
said, the difference in filesize between level 5 (the default) and
level 8 (the highest) is a few percent at best. Speaking from
practical experience: when I still used an old single-CPU box I
encoded at 5, now that I'm using a dual core I encode at 8 - I found
that my old computer became very slow when using the more
CPU-intensive level 8.
(There's no difference in sound quality - flac is *always* *lossless*.)
Regards,
Martin
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