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FLAC is lossless, and given a random piece of audio it would be impossible to always encode into 700kbps something that is originally 1.4Mbps without loss of in
by teawrecks 5y ago
FLAC is lossless, and given a random piece of audio it would be impossible to always encode into 700kbps something that is originally 1.4Mbps without loss of information. So your 2:1 samples claim doesn't sound accurate. Maybe file size, but not sample count.
- colanderman 5y agoYes, if you are encoding level-maximized white noise, FLAC cannot compress at that ratio, or likely at all. Music is not white noise. It does not maximize the channel capacity of the audio spectrum. As a rule of thumb, FLAC compresses most anything a human might call "music" in about a 2:1 file size ratio.
- teawrecks 5y agoRight, so file size, not sample count. It's lossless.