you sure that 35 mb isnt just one file. there is no way the flac version of any album will be 35mb.
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you sure that 35 mb isnt just one file. there is no way the flac version of any album will be 35mb.
Even for a single song 35MB is a little small. Just because it's posted in the lossless group doesn't mean it's lossless for sure.
the flac format has a variable bitrate. It's much smaller than wav because wave files have a lot more in them besides music. Most flac songs will peak in quality at about 700-1000 kbps.
Anyway, lossless means that there has been no compression of the audio streams, and flac is a form of a lossless file. Saying lossless and flac is like saying processor and Core 2 duo. One is general, the other is specific.
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Originally Posted by mbucari1
Not strictly true. Lossless means that the audio quality hasn't been compromised in any way by the compression.
To use an analogy, a zip file or a rar file is a lossless compression method. The file sizes are much smaller, but no data has actually been lost.
Just think of the chaos if zip files were lossy :O
Anyway, by that definition, depending on the compression algorithm used, there can be different lossless compression formats that result in differently sized files.
10% of the original file size seems a bit too good to be true however. I'm suspectiing that wasn't truly lossless...
Lossless=non destructive compression
Well said.Quote:
Originally Posted by BarbarossaQuote:
Originally Posted by mbucari1
Not strictly true. Lossless means that the audio quality hasn't been compromised in any way by the compression.
To use an analogy, a zip file or a rar file is a lossless compression method. The file sizes are much smaller, but no data has actually been lost.
Just think of the chaos if zip files were lossy :O
Anyway, by that definition, depending on the compression algorithm used, there can be different lossless compression formats that result in differently sized files.
10% of the original file size seems a bit too good to be true however. I'm suspectiing that wasn't truly lossless...
-bd
i hate flac, why would use flac, when you can you just convert into mp3
Because its lossless?Quote:
Originally Posted by snowultra
:p
I like lossless. Gives more depth to the music. MP3s sound a little tinny.