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
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mark Powell wrote:> 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?If you'd like one of the files that shorten does better on, I can put it up for ftp. I'll shorten it first of course :) The smallest is: shn 9,898,601 flac 10,157,063 Or I can put the whole album up if you have a fast link? 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
had to fix the subject... was getting under my skin! yeah, could you put up the FLAC version of the worst track that is less than 20 megs compressed? (I'll have to grab it with a 56k modem). by worst I mean the one where shorten beats flac by the most. also: 1. what version of shorten are you using? 2. what command-line options for flac and shorten did you use on this track? thanks, Josh --- Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> wrote:> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mark Powell wrote: > > > 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? > > If you'd like one of the files that shorten does > better on, I can put it > up for ftp. I'll shorten it first of course :) The > smallest is: > > shn 9,898,601 > flac 10,157,063 > > Or I can put the whole album up if you have a fast > link?__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/