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Old 2008-04-04, 09:44 AM
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Re: Flac Front End

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What level are you decoding at?
Shouldn't matter. Decoding usually takes the same amount of time (within seconds) regardless of level. Encoding can vary dramatically dependant on the level of compression (8 taking the longest).
the only thing I can think of that would slow down decoding (which is FLAC's strong point) would be a fragged-up hard drive with little free-space. If the heads are having to fly around to write the decoded file, it could decrease performace big time. An avg FLAC file shou dtake about 2-3 seconds to completely decode to WAV.

Check your har drive's frag state (take a screenshot) and free space and report back.
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