[Flac] best string setting

Brian Willoughby brianw at sounds.wa.com
Thu Jul 12 13:33:59 PDT 2007


Rick,

Mark asked "why" you want the least amount of compression.  I think  
we still do not understand your goals.  If you can give us a hint at  
what you're trying to accomplish in your search for the least amount  
of compression, that might help us find the right answer.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


On Jul 12, 2007, at 13:26, Rick wrote:
> I try to make it easier for you to understand,
> I do understand about lossless format, hence I installed flac,
> second, understanding the setting under the man pages is the key.
> so, I pose a question, which is:
>
> What setting uses the least amount of compression.
>
> flac --best
> or
> flac -1
>
> Richard
>
>
>> 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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