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Dear all,<br>
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I have a wav file that when I try to encode with the FLAC
Frontend, I get "ERROR: unsupported format type 3".<br>
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When I open it with an audio editor I find it is 44100 / 32 bit. I
requantized it to 16 bit using the default dither and then
compressed it with FLAC to get a 61 Mbyte file (the original was
about 347 Mbyte). Obviously, this altered somewhat the quality,
although in an indiscernible way (for me, at least).<br>
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However, as a last attempt, I used Winrar on the original file and
to my surprise it was compacted to 79 Mb, only about 33% more than
the FLAC version representing a file with half the data.<br>
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This is interesting since using non-audio compressors usually one
seldom gets more than a 10% reduction.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Federico <br>
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