[flac-dev] Higher compression modes from Flake

Brian Willoughby
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:10:36 -0000

Are you sure that the encoding library was improved, or just the
command line?

Keep in mind that 1-8 (or 0-8) are just macros for particular
combinations of options that are also available separately.

I'm just guessing, here, but 9-12 might be nothing more than selected
combinations of options that are already available in the official
flac command-line, albeit without a short, numerical abbreviation.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


On Mar 13, 2013, at 02:49, Marko Uibo wrote:
> Is it planned someday to implement additional higher (9-12)
> compression
> modes like in Flake?
>
> http://flake-enc.sourceforge.net/
>
> It's not very important I think. Harddrive space isn't problem
today.
> But it preserves other indepentent work done on Flac and give room for
> some extra albums on harddrive. I think development of flake is
> stopped.
>
> 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.