[Flac] FLAC: getting compression level using metaflac

[Alex Jones]

As compression level does not affect audio quality, the only thing that
this can indicate to a user is how compact the data is. Average bitrate
is a much better metric of this than compression level.

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 08:27 -0700, Mark Rudholm wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >>  ------------------------------
> >> *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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