[Flac] FLAC: getting compression level using metaflac

Mark Rudholm rudholm at hyperreal.org
Thu Jul 5 08:27:57 PDT 2007


What difference does it make?

Harry Sack wrote:
> Why isn't the compression level added in a metadata block by the flac
> encoder itself (just like the encoder version)? In this way all programs
> that read the file can see what compression level was used.
> 
> thx
> 
> 2007/7/4, Scot Thompson <scot.thompson at cox.net>:
>>
>>  This has been asked many times.  The answer is no.  I suggest saving the
>> compression level into a tag for future reference, but that won't help
>> you
>> with files you get from unknown locations.
>>
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>> *From:* flac-bounces at xiph.org [mailto:flac-bounces at xiph.org] *On
>> Behalf Of
>> *Harry Sack
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:14 AM
>> *To:* flac at xiph.org
>> *Subject:* [Flac] FLAC: getting compression level using metaflac
>>
>> Hi FLAC list!
>>
>> I have a question (maybe a strange one) about getting the compression
>> level (0-8) using metaflac.
>> So I want to know for a given FLAC file what compression level was
>> used to
>> compress that file.
>> I tried using the --list option but this doesn't give any information
>> about this.
>>
>> Is there a way to get the compression level of a given FLAC file using
>> metaflac or another tool?
>>
>> thx
>>
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