Level 1 uses far less compression than level 8. In terms of compression, the lower the "level" the less compression used (and the larger the resulting FLAC file).<br><br>Hope that helps.<br><br>-Brad<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 7/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Rick</b> <<a href="mailto:cms0009@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cms0009@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I try to make it easier for you to understand,
<br>I do understand about lossless format, hence I installed flac,<br>second, understanding the setting under the man pages is the key.<br>so, I pose a question, which is:<br><br>What setting uses the least amount of compression.
<br><br>flac --best<br>or<br>flac -1<br><br>Richard<br><br><br>On Thursday 12 July 2007 11:08:44 am Alex Jones wrote:<br>> I think he might be concerned with audio quality, and doesn't quite<br>> understand what "lossless" really means!
<br>><br>> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 07:12 -0700, Mark Rudholm wrote:<br>> > Rick wrote:<br>> > > hmm, let me ask this question, another way...<br>> > > which setting offer the least compression ?.
<br>> ><br>> > Not using it at all.<br>> ><br>> > But why would you want that? What's the goal here?<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Flac mailing list
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