[Flac] FLAC: compressing more with traditional compression algorithm

Alex Jones alex at weej.com
Wed Jul 11 06:20:14 PDT 2007


Maybe a little bit. Tag contents, for example, aren't compressed (and
rightly so). 

But it's not going to make any serious impact on the audio data, in fact
it's quite likely to end up bigger. (See the Pigeonhole Principle! [1])

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:40 +0200, Harry Sack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if it's possible to compress encoded FLAC files even
> more using a traditional compression algorithm like zip, rar, ... or
> won't you get any smaller files using such an algorithm by applying it
> on the encoded FLAC files? 
> 
> thx
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