Two ALAC files of the same piece will differ in size for a couple reasons: differing tags and framing structure (some encoders may use more of the framing or pad things with 0's for later updates) and differing compression factors.
The resulting files will then be different, but when uncompressed they will go back to being the same.... The differing compression on lossless is based on how hard a given encoder tries to compress data. The size difference is usually pretty minimal so it is a question of how much CPU time is worth saving a few K of disk space... usually the defaults of an encoder are fine with a reasonable balance between encoding time and space used. The real test is to uncompress both files and see if the AIFFs are the same. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39564 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
