[Flac-announce] Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC 0.5 released

[FLAC]

yes 'slight' turned out to be not so slight.  I've
reclaimed most of the performance loss between 0.4
and 0.5 and am working on more speed improvements now
that the format and features are steady.

there should be another release this week.

Josh

--- Mark Powell <M.S.Powell at salford.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Josh Coalson wrote:
> 
> > There is a slight slowdown due to the improved
> Rice coder, which
> > yields a bit better compression.  For the versions
> up to the first
> > official release I will probably be concentrating
> on performance.
> 
> I think this is a high priority. I'd like to use
> flac. That extra
> compression it gives and it's free status appeal to
> me. However, I
> compressed some .wavs of entire CDs yesterday.
> Shorten was taking 3
> minutes for some whereas flac was 35mins. The space
> saving is not worth
> that amount of time :(
>   I could use Money's Audio, but I want to use
> something thats free with
> source available. That's why I'm currently sticking
> with shorten.
>   Cheers.
> 
> Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The
> University of Salford
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> Building,
> Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK.
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