[Flac-dev] flac can occasionally be worse than shorten

[Josh Coalson]

> > I've never come across a sample like this which is
> > why I thought it wasn't useful to add that
> > functionality to FLAC... maybe if this is a common
> > practice I should put it in.
> ...
> I've
> compressed around 50 albums with flac and found 1
> where the LSB is 0. Even
> if it's 1 in 200, that's going to be lots of cases
> where shorten out
> performs it?
>   But, hey I program too and this seems like a pain
> in the arse to code
> just for these limited cases

actually, it's pretty easy to code and not even a
real speed penalty, but I would have to find a place
in the stream header for the bitshift #, which is
pretty tight right now.  if I can I will probably
add it.

Josh


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