davep wrote: > It's incorrectly labelled as a 'Quality' setting - it actually refers to > the degree of compression,
Actually, it works more like a "how hard should I try to compress this audio" setting. > although there is not much difference in file > size between the two ends of this spectrum. The higher compression > rates use more processing power and time to achieve, although again > this is relative. The increase in processing time appears to be fairly exponential, i.e. Setting it to "8" takes a helluva lot longer than "5" and doesn't decrease the final audio size by very much. That said, every little helps - I use "8". > As you thought, lossless is lossless and hence > quality is unchanged from the original at any setting. Correct - flac will decode to the same bits whether it used a "Quality" setting of "1" or "8". R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
