thomsens;188706 Wrote:
The sample CD I chose was Santana's Shaman. So I guess this fits in the
busy category. For reference, the CD took up 519Mb for FLAC and it
was only 138Mb for extreme MP3 VBR. That's a 3.75 x the disk space,
which is amazing since the MP3 sounds great at that quality
I'm seeing 70-75% size relative to .WAV when using EAC/FLAC 1.1.4 with
the following command line:
-8 -V --replay-gain -T artist=%a -T title=%t -T album=%g -T
date=%y -T tracknumber=%n -T genre=%m -T comment=%e -T
comment=EAC/FLAC 1.1.4 -8 %s
Is this expected? I was thinking it would be closer
It depends on the music. 50-55% is pretty rare, but possible on simple
pieces. Oddly enough, the music that I find the most obvious to have
artifacts with mp3 (solo piano pieces) seem to compress very well with
flac. Complex pieces, where detail is less likely to be noticed don't
compress as
snarlydwarf;188599 Wrote:
It depends on the music. 50-55% is pretty rare, but possible on simple
pieces. Oddly enough, the music that I find the most obvious to have
artifacts with mp3 (solo piano pieces) seem to compress very well with
flac. Complex pieces, where detail is less likely to
Tying FLAC's file size reduction capacity to how busy the music is is
a reasonably accurate correlation. Another good example is sending a
fax.
If you send a plain white sheet of paper by fax, the transmission is
much faster. Essentially, your machine just tells the other machine to
pull a white
I use the default compression level of -5 and regularly see 45 to 55% on
much of the jazz in my collection. I just took a look at a few random
files and even found one at 32% - solo piano with vocals.
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JJZolx
Jim
The sample CD I chose was Santana's Shaman. So I guess this fits in the
busy category. For reference, the CD took up 519Mb for FLAC and it
was only 138Mb for extreme MP3 VBR. That's a 3.75 x the disk space,
which is amazing since the MP3 sounds great at that quality level.
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thomsens
