I thought I made myself clear when explaining Cue sheets etc, I'll say it again FLAC files don't hold information by default.
When playing a FLAC file it is not uncompressed by the player rather its decoded in exactly the same way as a MP3, WMA, OGG or any other file, if expansion of compressed files were to occur when a player played each one then yes it would take a while and you'd need one hell of a lot of memory not to mention some nice complex software <smile>. On 04/03/2011, at 5:08 PM, Dana S. Leslie wrote: > Dane, > > I don't understand the relevance of your initial comments, regarding cue > sheets, to what I asked. > > What I'm wondering about is this: When an audio file is compressed with FLAC, > no audio information is lost in the process of compression. Fine. But, as you > say, it will take longer to compress a file, using a higher level of > compression, than if a lower level is used. Similarly, I imagine, if a higher > level of compression is used, it will take longer to uncompress the FLAC > file. Now, when I click on a FLAC file compressed at the maximum level of > compression, and it begins to play in my media player, will the fact that it > takes longer to uncompress the file have any effect on the sound quality of > the playback/listening experience? > > Thanks. > > Dana > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 12:59 AM > Subject: Re: FLAC Question > > > 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] > > __________ NOD32 5918 (20110301) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
