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FLAC compression level comparison/efficiency analysis
FLAC compression levels are (only) a trade of between encoding time and file size. The decoding time is pretty much independent of compression rate. In the following I will refer to the compression ...
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FLAC compression options unclear: --exhaustive-model-search, --qlp-coeff-precision-search
They give a small improvement to the compression at the cost of encoding time.
As neither requires specifying --lax, they do not make the resulting files less compliant.
-8e, -8p and -8ep could be ...
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Are FLAC audio files automatically decompressed by music players?
Yes. Without decompression a flac file contains just pseudo-random data. A media player requires an ordered stream of PCM stereo audio samples in order for them to be converted to analogue audio via a ...
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How can to find the play-time of a `.flac` file?
Total Samples / Sample Rate (Hz) = playback/recording time (s)
In this case:
Total Samples = 10238256
Sample Rate = 44100 Hz
Thus: 10238256 / 44100 = 232.160068027210884 seconds
Explanation
The ...
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from Flac to wav
FLAC is lossless compression. During compression, you can set a compression option: setting this to a higher level creates a smaller file that is still lossless by taking more time to process the file....
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Spotting a fake flac using spectrogram
This looks "extended" because of the (most probably) linear scale that your spectrogram is using on the frequency axis. It should look way more common if you switch it to log or similar.
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Is there a standard way of naming user-defined metadata tags in .flac files?
The most efficient way to prevent name collision in the FLAC metadata seems to register a FLAC id as described here : https://www.xiph.org/flac/id.html
FLAC allows third-party applications to ...
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How do I compress 32-bit float PCM a perfectly lossless way?
http://www.wavpack.com/ has the specs of the supported file formats. Wavpack supports both lossless and lossy compression depending on the configuration options selected during processing.
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FLAC compression level comparison/efficiency analysis
As a followup to Suuuehgi's answer, I'd also like to add that if you are starting from a CD and ripping it directly to FLAC, encoding time may not matter at all because you have to first rip the music,...
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Any reason not to convert WAV to FLAC and save some disk space?
I'm struggling with this issue now, as well. The one downside to Flac, that I can see, is that it doesn't support media cues.
One benefit to recording in Wav is that I can record a lot of audio at ...
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Converting WAV to FLAC. Compression level 0 has higher bitrate than 8
There is a limit to the amount of compression you can achieve with a "Lossless" compression algorithm - at some point all the recognizable patterns are removed and your file essentially becomes random ...
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FLAC --bps setting real meaning
According to the man page, --bps specifies the bits per sample. As far as I can tell, this parameter controls the data that will be encoded using FLAC, and can have a lossy effect. For example, here's ...
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Playing FLAC in home theater system that doesn't support it?
Your Sony Home Theater System probably doesn't support FLAC because it doesn't have the codec to uncompress the FLAC audio files.
It kind of depends on the features of your hardware and the settings ...
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