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Title: Using MC to rip to flac....what # to use
Post by: ~OHM~ on May 22, 2018, 06:36:40 pm

it says that 6 is recommended, then states a higher # will result in smaller file size...I'm confused.....I usually just do ape but it's not for me. any thoughts on this...wiki not much help! goggle either.

Title: Re: Using MC to rip to flac....what # to use
Post by: RD James on May 22, 2018, 07:12:16 pm

Level 6 FLAC compression is the default because it is typically the best balance between compression ratio, and encoding time.
Higher levels produce marginally smaller file sizes but take significantly longer to encode (2-3x).

Title: Re: Using MC to rip to flac....what # to use
Post by: ~OHM~ on May 22, 2018, 11:06:53 pm

so time is the major difference....thanks RD

Title: Re: Using MC to rip to flac....what # to use
Post by: dtc on May 23, 2018, 06:47:01 am

FYI - Decompression time is not appreciatively affected by the amount of compression.  It takes significant time to find the patterns to compression, but it takes very little to recognize the compressed data to decompress. 

Also,  a compression of 5 compared to 0 usually only adds less than 10% additional compression.  This, of course, depends on the original music.