Yes, 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

Yes, 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.