Hi i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software supports a new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format, e.g. http://www.audiostream.com/content/dbpoweramps-flac-lossless-uncompressed-wish-come-true i know only the normal flac compression levels from 0 to 8. have i missed an option on the flac comamnd line tool or how could i achieve that on the linux command line flac tool ? greets KoS
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Martin Kos <martin at kos.li> wrote:> Hi > > i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software supports a > new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format, e.g. > > http://www.audiostream.com/content/dbpoweramps-flac-lossless-uncompressed-wish-come-true > > i know only the normal flac compression levels from 0 to 8. have i > missed an option on the flac comamnd line tool or how could i achieve > that on the linux command line flac tool ?There isn't. Nor should you shouldn't use software by people who promote snake oil like "there has been some contention and controversy over whether or not the playback of losslessly compressed files affect playback quality"
Spoon is well known for being a liar. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Martin Kos <martin at kos.li> wrote: > > Hi > > > > i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software supports a > > new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format, e.g. > > > > > http://www.audiostream.com/content/dbpoweramps-flac-lossless-uncompressed-wish-come-true > > > > i know only the normal flac compression levels from 0 to 8. have i > > missed an option on the flac comamnd line tool or how could i achieve > > that on the linux command line flac tool ? > > > There isn't. Nor should you shouldn't use software by people who > promote snake oil like "there has been some contention and controversy > over whether or not the playback of losslessly compressed files affect > playback quality" > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20120308/b6951cc4/attachment.htm
At 09:11 AM 3/8/2012, Martin Kos wrote:>Hi > >i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software supports a >new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format, e.g. > >http://www.audiostream.com/content/dbpoweramps-flac-lossless-uncompressed-wish-come-true > >i know only the normal flac compression levels from 0 to 8. have i >missed an option on the flac comamnd line tool or how could i achieve >that on the linux command line flac tool ? > >greets > KoSUncompressed FLAC is called WAV.
What dbPowerAmp does is encapsulate the wav file into a FLAC container without actually compressing it. I guess it can be a bit arguable if you can technically call it a FLAC file :) It's like using "Store" mode in RAR, for instance. The idea behing this "uncompressed FLAC" is to give the FLAC tagging abilities to people who don't want to compress their files. But as WAV is lacking in the tags department (some workarounds, but most players are not compatible with those), dbPowerAmp uses the FLAC structure and inputs the uncompressed data inside. As far as I understood from the webpage, that's it. I don't think that option is available with the command-line flac. I think dbPowerAmp (and this is me purely speculating, mind you) manually builds the file by adding a FLAC header where the tags can be stored and then inserts the uncompressed wav in the data field of the file or something equivalent. Cheers, On 09/03/2012 14:09, yahoo2 wrote:> At 09:11 AM 3/8/2012, Martin Kos wrote: >> Hi >> >> i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software supports a >> new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format, e.g. >> >> http://www.audiostream.com/content/dbpoweramps-flac-lossless-uncompressed-wish-come-true >> >> i know only the normal flac compression levels from 0 to 8. have i >> missed an option on the flac comamnd line tool or how could i achieve >> that on the linux command line flac tool ? >> >> greets >> KoS > Uncompressed FLAC is called WAV. > > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac >