[Flac] FLAC suddenly compresses more - why?

yahoo2 yahoo2 at rcn.com
Sun Dec 26 08:23:52 PST 2010


At 09:30 AM 12/26/2010, Rene Boers wrote:
>Hi guys,
>I use EAC to save and compress my CD's to my network drive. In the 
>past my compression to Flac was slightly worse than the file size 
>shown by EAC. Now, since about two weeks ago, my compression ends up 
>at about half the size of EAC i.e. I went from a compression ratio 
>of approx 70% to a ratio of 30%. I get the feeling that the 
>compression is somehow missing something. Or is the intial 
>conversion to *.wav files not working properly?
>Any help I can get on testing the process etc would be appreciated.
>Note: I removed EAC and reinstalled to the latest version, but the 
>compression was still the "fantastic"30%.
>
>Regards,
>Rene
>
>
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Sounds like your getting the default compression instead of a 
compression of level 8,



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