[Flac] best string setting

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Thu Jul 12 08:11:46 PDT 2007


Alex Jones wrote:
> I think he might be concerned with audio quality, and doesn't quite
> understand what "lossless" really means!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression

Rick, flac will *always* get you back to the exact original bits you
started with.  No loss.  Never.  Using options for more compression
might mean more time to encode, but it will *not* lead to any loss in
quality.

-Eric

> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 07:12 -0700, Mark Rudholm wrote:
>> Rick wrote:
>>> hmm, let me ask this question, another way...
>>> which setting offer the least compression ?.
>> Not using it at all.
>>
>> But why would you want that?  What's the goal here?
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