I'm not trying to bring up old news and revive the "Lossless is lossless" debate but while I was messing around today trying to figure out why iTunes ALAC are only playing at 24/48 and not 24/96 I did some conversions and discovered:
Each time I transcoded between FLAC to ALAC to FLAC my file became shorter. All tags were retained (no artwork was on the file in the first place). The first round of FLAC -> ALAC reduced the file size by 3.3% and each subsequent round dropped it by between 0.003 and 0.014%. The drop didn't occur in any particular order. In fact the 2nd round was the smallest and 3rd was the largest, with an average decrease in file size of 0.0071%. I'm not surprised that the first round dropped something, but even the small decrease on the 2nd thru 7th was a surprise. I know we're not taking big numbers here but where did my bytes go? -- kphinney -I like it, you may not. I understand and respect that.- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kphinney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10409 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73539 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
