[Flac] Something's driving me crazy

[Josh Coalson]

--- inishmor <inishmor at tiscali.it> wrote:

> I decode and then re-encode a FLAC file someone sent to me, and I get
> a different file (about 3K
> larger).
> 
> I have used:
>  - the same version of FLAC.EXE (hash-checked) used to create the
> original FLAC file
>  - the same level of compression
>  - no tag infos were included in the original FLAC file
> 
> I can't really figure out how could it be possible, but sometimes it
> happens (of course many times I
> get exactly the same 'binary' file).
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thank you very much for attention.

could be differences in padding, seektable, or other metadata,
or this:

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/2005-July/000465.html

or this

http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tools__wave_flac_wave

Josh


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