I've found a wav of an entire album that shorten compresses better than flac. Is this supposed to be possible? wav 388,374,044 flac-6 239,109,203 shn 236,457,697 Cheers. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Academic Information Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key
Mark, if it's possible, can you do me a favor... Try encoding the album as individual tracks and compare sizes. The reason I ask is because of the way FLAC frames are numbered in the frame headers (if you check the format page you'll see what I mean). Josh --- Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> wrote:> I've found a wav of an entire album that shorten > compresses better than > flac. Is this supposed to be possible? > > wav 388,374,044 > flac-6 239,109,203 > shn 236,457,697 > > Cheers.__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Josh Coalson wrote:> Mark, if it's possible, can you do me a favor... > Try encoding the album as individual tracks and > compare sizes. The reason I ask is because of > the way FLAC frames are numbered in the frame > headers (if you check the format page you'll see > what I mean).Sorry, I don't :( I've split into individual files and found that shorten compresses some files better and flac others. However, in total shorten does better. I was just a little surprised, because I thought flac would always out perform shorten? Cheers. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Academic Information Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key