Timeline for Any reason not to convert WAV to FLAC and save some disk space?
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| Feb 21, 2014 at 11:00 | history | migrated | from video.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 28, 2010 at 0:46 | comment | added | dgw | Actually, when I was exporting bunches (hundreds) of short WAVs and zipping them into archives, I got decent compression. Not much worse than FLAC, actually. But that might have to do with the great redundancy of those WAVs (lots of wasted bytes in silence at beginning and end). | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 17:39 | comment | added | Brad | @herzmeister der welten, yes ZIP won't compress much, but it is convenient. It's difficult to compress complex data. | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 12:18 | comment | added | herzmeister der welten | @Brad ZIP didn't compress audio well last time I checked (guess it's been years already). I used WinRAR for that, it has a specific audio option, and performs similarly to those lossless codecs out there. Never checked 7zip though. | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 2:01 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Dec 24, 2010 at 16:24 | comment | added | Brad | To add a note to this answer, if you are looking to save space with your DAW project files, you can always just ZIP them. Then you get everything in one nice and neat file. The compression isn't quite as good as FLAC, but is more convenient. FLAC should be used for finished stuff. | |
| Dec 24, 2010 at 4:21 | history | answered | Warrior Bob | CC BY-SA 2.5 |