Okay let's make a few things clear here. a FLAC file does not contain information on a CD rather its usually the associated Cue file which contains the information, how many tracks the CD contains, at which point or sector each track starts and ends, the name of each track, the artist of each, the length etc. Having said that it is possible to imbed a cue sheet into a FLAC file and extract or use this information with the FLAC file, thus cue and FLAC file are a pair which software can act upon, software takes instruction from the cue file.
Regard the various compression levels for FLAC? None will give you any degradation in audio, they do however affect size and performance of the compressor. For example, Level 0 is fast whilst the higher levels take longer to encode and are slightly bigger though not by much, you may find that the difference is only say 10MB from levels 0 through 8 thus you may as well use level 0 as the size won't be much different and the encoder will take a fraction of the time to create your FLAC file. On 02/03/2011, at 4:31 PM, Dana S. Leslie wrote: > If I rip a CD to FLAC, there is, of course, no loss of audio information. But > what about the level of compression I choose? If I choose Level 8 (the > highest available), does that affect the sound quality of playback, at all, > in comparison with a lower level of compression? I wouldn't think so; but I'm > checking to see if there's something about FLAC compression I don't > know/understand. > > Thanks. > > Blessed Be, Namaste, > > Dana > that's Dana, D A N A, NOT Donna, D O N N A > If your synthesizer pronounces them identically, instruct your customized > pronunciation dictionary that Dana=dayna. > > D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman > Email: [email protected] > Skype: dsleslie > Web: ÞE OL' PHILOSOPHIE SHOPPE > Your Source for Discounted Ideas > http://members.cox.net/dsleslie2/ > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
