Did you keep each generation of file created along the way? By my count you should have the original plus about 14 more. If you decode each of these to a WAV file, the WAV files should be identical. That's a much more important test than what you're doing. Having any metadata in the files complicates things, as there may be padding that gets added or removed each time you encode or decode.
Going from FLAC to ALAC, it's not unusual that you'd see a small decrease in file size, as ALAC may compress better than FLAC using the default compression level. It's known that FLAC doesn't always milk the very last amount of compression from a file, in exchange for being a relatively fast, lightweight CODEC that is even faster on the decoding side (asymmetric in favor of decoding speed). I'd be willing to bet that if you decoded and encoded using just FLAC for several generations that after one or two the file size wouldn't change. ALAC may be less predictable in what it does with metadata. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73539 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
