Re: [Flac-dev] alternate compression

2009-08-10 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Aug 9, 2009, at 21:18, Didier Dambrin wrote: >>> ..But sadly none of FLAC, WavPack or OptimFrog could compress the >>> pre-processed song better, or hardly. And considering you'd also >>> have to add >>> the pool of frames, it would end up worse. >> >> This surprises me. Have you tried alignin

Re: [Flac-dev] alternate compression

2009-08-09 Thread Didier Dambrin
>> ..But sadly none of FLAC, WavPack or OptimFrog could compress the >> pre-processed song better, or hardly. And considering you'd also >> have to add >> the pool of frames, it would end up worse. > > This surprises me. Have you tried aligning your frames to the > standard FLAC frame size? > No

Re: [Flac-dev] alternate compression

2009-08-09 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Aug 8, 2009, at 23:11, Didier Dambrin wrote: > Electronic music quite often doesn't leave a computer these days. > And it > mainly consists of drums, synths & vocals/effects. Drums are often > samples > sequenced at sample (not sub-sample) accuracy, thus repeated (of > course if > the son

Re: [Flac-dev] alternate compression

2009-08-08 Thread Didier Dambrin
I'm doing testing on this at the moment. But to start with: >>Because music represents an analog signal, As I wrote, it would only apply to specific genres, not analog recordings. Electronic music quite often doesn't leave a computer these days. And it mainly consists of drums, synths & vocals/