[Flac-dev] Re: FLAC: same features as WavPack

[Dan Pritts]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:15:12PM -0700, Brian Willoughby wrote:
> that it supports.  I'm sorry that I confused things in my earlier  
> message by pointing out that you can convert 32-bit float to a format  
> that FLAC supports or that you can write your own encoder/decoder for  
> 32-bit integer FLAC.  You really need to understand floating point  
> numbers and what kind of audio data you have before trying to analyze  
> FLAC this way.

can you suggest a good primer on the differences between floating
point and integer audio formats?   I see from googling that perhaps
the motivation for using floating-point formats is that modern x86
CPUs are better at floats than ints, is there more to it than that?

danno
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