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Title: flac versions?
Post by: benn600 on November 15, 2006, 09:38:50 am

I have always wondered if FLAC is lossless, what if they upgrade FLAC?  Does it get better?  Would decoders get confused and not decode properly so it wouldn't be exactly the same as the CD?  Do newer versions decrease file size?  Would there be a reason to re-encode FLAC to the new FLAC version if a new version came out?  How can you determine the version of FLAC files?

Title: Re: flac versions?
Post by: escaflo on November 15, 2006, 09:55:04 am

I am not too sure but I would think that with each increment increase, it probably mean that the decryption would take less CPU and faster encoding. The base algorithm of encoding should remain the same.

Well that's my guess.

Title: Re: flac versions?
Post by: jgreen on November 15, 2006, 10:25:54 am

They do./Not really./No./No./No./Look in the tag dump.

Also:

flac.sourceforge.net

Title: Re: flac versions?
Post by: glynor on November 15, 2006, 12:55:07 pm

Quote from: jgreen on November 15, 2006, 10:25:54 am

They do./Not really./No./No./No./Look in the tag dump.

What he said, except that file size could potentially get a tiny bit smaller with new versions (certainly not always, but it's possible).  Differences would likely be tiny though...