Hello,
Please excuse me for asking a think that everybody could have asked before...
I am a newbie and I want to encode some wavs using FLAC Frontend.
I see many settings and 'Level' kept my attention.
As I know, FLAC is a lossless encoding format, and I see from my tests that
Level affects file size and bitrate.
What is the meaning of it? Is there any difference in sound quality or just
compression and/or CPU usage?
Best Regards,
Mihai Sorin Dobrescu
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> I am a newbie and I want to encode some wavs using FLAC Frontend. > I see many settings and 'Level' kept my attention. > As I know, FLAC is a lossless encoding format, and I see from my > tests that Level affects file size and bitrate. > What is the meaning of it? Is there any difference in sound quality > or just compression and/or CPU usage?The latter: the higher the level, the better the compression - that said, the difference in filesize between level 5 (the default) and level 8 (the highest) is a few percent at best. Speaking from practical experience: when I still used an old single-CPU box I encoded at 5, now that I'm using a dual core I encode at 8 - I found that my old computer became very slow when using the more CPU-intensive level 8. (There's no difference in sound quality - flac is *always* *lossless*.) Regards, Martin