On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:00 -0700, dwc wrote: > Is there any reason not to use level 8 compression when encoding to FLAC > for (wireless) slimbox? Has it been found that some other compression > level works better for some reason? Thanks for any help, I have a lot > of cd's to re-rip and I only want to have to do this once. > > I also have to take into consideration that my mp3 player is an x-5, > and I don't remember if it supports level 8 or not. Heading to > iaudiophile next to check on that...
FLAC is flac. The compression setting is not supposed to have any impact on replay. FLAC is designed to be asymetric. Easy to decompress, which you do every time you play a tune, and not so easy to compress which is something that you do only once, and usually on a real computer. What the compression setting does is tell the compressor how hard to try to compress the file. Using a higher setting can make the files a little bit smaller, but takes lots longer. If you are sitting in front of the computer watching the compression, you may care. If you queue up the compression and go on to other things, or go to sleep, work, etc. then you might as well use the highest level. The increased compression is not at all proportional to the time required. You can spend two or three times as long trying to compress for only 10% or so of decreased file size. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
