Robin Laing wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
From my experience, flac is ~25% smaller than the wave files for most
music. I really have not looked that closely. I will have to look
closer into this.
I use OGG but I feel with the cost of HD's today, why save as a lossy
format. Also, this gives me a backup of my CD if it decides to fail.
Convert back to wav and have a copy if ever needed.
I do agree with you that ogg is much better than mp3's in my own
experience. I find that all the ogg files I have ripped seem to have a
full dynamic range over any of the mp3's. Even when the mp3's have a
higher bitrate.
To add to this.
Last night I checked some of the disks I ripped. I still have the
original *.wav files and *.flac files. Size difference is ~20%
smaller for flac over wav.
I also came across this article that says almost the same thing.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3232
It has a script on it for converting *.flac to *.ogg which I tried
last night. It works with a couple warnings. Also the bitrate is
lower than I would like for the *.ogg files. Of course they are only
for the iRiver.
