[flac-dev] Higher compression modes from Flake

Martijn van Beurden
Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:20:33 -0000

On 13-03-13 10:49, Marko Uibo wrote:
> I plan to test my ~20 GB flac collection how big difference flake -12
> gives me. But I still use reference implementation for my main collection.

If I remember correctly gains were less then 0,5%, which for 20GB will
be 100MB, not enough to get even one extra album in.

If you like the idea of that little extra gain while sticking with FLAC
(for hardware/software support) you might look into FLACCL, that encoder
is still actively developed.