Rick B. wrote: > They claim "increased compression" - does anyone know how much space is > saved with 1.1.4 vs. 1.1.3? > > Should I be re-ripping all of my CD's?
NO, never. Not if by "re-rip" you mean put the CD in a computer drive and extract it again. The point of using Flac is that you never lose anything. So if some future version of flac yields twice the compression, all you have to do is use flac to decompress it back to PCM, and then recompress it. This can be done in giant batches. You never have to touch your CDs again, never have to re-rip them. This does not address the implied question, which is how much better is the new compression for my music. This is unanswerable in general. You can easily test it on some samples from your collection. The flac sourceforge site says "Improved compression with no impact on format or decoding speed." but improving the compression ratio from 55% to 53% is an improvement, but I would not consider it important when 500 GB disk drives are so cheap. Unless you have a really, really big library. all IMHO, YMMV, etc. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
