[Flac-dev] flac worse than shorten

[Mark Powell]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Josh Coalson wrote:

> Mark, if it's possible, can you do me a favor...
> Try encoding the album as individual tracks and
> compare sizes.  The reason I ask is because of
> the way FLAC frames are numbered in the frame
> headers (if you check the format page you'll see
> what I mean).

Sorry, I don't :( I've split into individual files and found that shorten
compresses some files better and flac others. However, in total shorten
does better. I was just a little surprised, because I thought flac would
always out perform shorten?
  Cheers.

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