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Old 2009-01-24, 01:55 AM
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Re: Trader's Little Helper - FLAC encoding options

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Originally Posted by GRC View Post
TLH asks for a 'level' when encoding WAV to FLAC, from level 0 worst to level 8 best.

Does this mean levels 0 thru 7 are lossy, and only level 8 is lossless?
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, meaning that when using FLAC the audio data will always be compressed without any loss in quality. So after a wav>flac>wav conversion the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical to what went into the flac encoder.

The compression level merely specifies how much compression will be applied: level 0 means lowest compression (and as such lowest encoding time), level 8 means highest compression (and as such highest encoding time). In other words: The higher the level the smaller the encoded file. But as said above: the result is always a lossless compression.

The default level TLH uses is 6, because imo that's the best compromise between encoding time and compressed file size.
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