[flac-dev] uncompressed FLAC

[Martin Kos]

Hi

On 08.03.2012 18:50, Ralph Giles wrote:
>> i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software
>> supports a new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format
>
> I expect this is just encoding every block as 'SUBFRAME_VERBATIM'.
> I'm not aware of a switch on the normal flac encoder to do this, but
> it would be straightforward to add. This feature already exists in
> the format because there are occassional input blocks where the
> compression algorithm produces larger output than the input, so it's
> better just to store the equivalent data untransformed. File
> compression tools like gzip have a similar mode.
thanks for the details, interesting to know.

> I wouldn't worry about it though. It's unfortunate the dbPowerAmp
> developers want to take advantage of the subset of customer who
> don't understand what 'lossless' means.
yeah i know. if the size of the media doesn't matter, but metadata 
should be included, than this would be a possibility. i myself don't 
believe that there is a hearable difference if you play a lossless file 
(as it is byte-wise the same), but if some customers are willing to pay 
for something where they think they can hear a difference, than why not? 
:-)

greets
  KoS