I don't worry about any particular settings with FLAC, just put your
files through it and be done.
There are compression settings but usually the best is the default which
is variable.
The maximum might only save you say 100K so - given these days when
we're talking MB,GB and TB - its not worth worrying about.
As I say FLAC files can vary remarkably in size and let's take a CD.
If the CD is composed of speech then the resulting FLAC file could be
very small, perhaps around 100MB with no loss.
If the CD is comprised of music which is of a high level then not much
compression will be applied to the resulting FLAC file which might be
around 550MB or slightly larger but still smaller than the original.
On 1/05/2018 10:01 PM, Robert Byers wrote:
Hi Dane!
I am trying Flak, but there is so many settings I'm never sure which
ones to use.
I tried Google, but that wasn't much help.
Can you give me a start, by any chance?
Rob.
On 5/1/2018 9:19 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Hi!
I’m curious to know if anyone else out there has stopped using MP3 or
AAC and is just now using FLAC or even Wave files or perhaps
something similar.
I recently bought an 8TB hard drive for $300 so storage has never
been cheaper than it is now, no need to compress all those files to
maximise the amount of tracks for a certain hard drive size as used
to be the case not all that long ago.
Unlimited cloud storage has also been a factor in my case.
Sure! I have all those tracks I bought from iTunes and other services
over the years and they’re great for convenience sake but as more and
more CD’S appear on the second-hand market with replacements for
those tracks I bought on iTunes I’m ripping from those CD’S and
replacing the iTunes versions with FLAC versions.
More Music Streaming/Subscription services too are taking up the
Lossless cause so its obvious that people value there Hi-Fi setups or
are discovering just how good music can sound through a good audio
setup that doesn’t cost all that much these days.
I’ve spoken about my Yamaha Hard Drive Recorder but what I didn’t
mention was that they aren’t manufactured any longer and I do wonder
why as they’re an independent unit which allows you to store or
record Lossless audio, perhaps manufacturing costs were too high at
the time?
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