Dane,
I don't understand the relevance of your initial comments, regarding cue
sheets, to what I asked.
What I'm wondering about is this: When an audio file is compressed with
FLAC, no audio information is lost in the process of compression. Fine. But,
as you say, it will take longer to compress a file, using a higher level of
compression, than if a lower level is used. Similarly, I imagine, if a
higher level of compression is used, it will take longer to uncompress the
FLAC file. Now, when I click on a FLAC file compressed at the maximum level
of compression, and it begins to play in my media player, will the fact that
it takes longer to uncompress the file have any effect on the sound quality
of the playback/listening experience?
Thanks.
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: FLAC Question
Okay let's make a few things clear here.
a FLAC file does not contain information on a CD rather its usually the
associated Cue file which contains the information, how many tracks the CD
contains, at which point or sector each track starts and ends, the name of
each track, the artist of each, the length etc. Having said that it is
possible to imbed a cue sheet into a FLAC file and extract or use this
information with the FLAC file, thus cue and FLAC file are a pair which
software can act upon, software takes instruction from the cue file.
Regard the various compression levels for FLAC? None will give you any
degradation in audio, they do however affect size and performance of the
compressor. For example, Level 0 is fast whilst the higher levels take
longer to encode and are slightly bigger though not by much, you may find
that the difference is only say 10MB from levels 0 through 8 thus you may as
well use level 0 as the size won't be much different and the encoder will
take a fraction of the time to create your FLAC file.
On 02/03/2011, at 4:31 PM, Dana S. Leslie wrote:
If I rip a CD to FLAC, there is, of course, no loss of audio information.
But what about the level of compression I choose? If I choose Level 8 (the
highest available), does that affect the sound quality of playback, at
all, in comparison with a lower level of compression? I wouldn't think so;
but I'm checking to see if there's something about FLAC compression I
don't know/understand.
Thanks.
Blessed Be, Namaste,
Dana
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