[Flac-dev] flac worse than shorten

[Mark Powell]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mark Powell wrote:

> 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?

If you'd like one of the files that shorten does better on, I can put it
up for ftp. I'll shorten it first of course :) The smallest is:

shn	 9,898,601
flac	10,157,063

Or I can put the whole album up if you have a fast link?
  Cheers.

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