[RWP] question about .flac files

[Scott Lawlor]

so files that are quieter or have more space in them will compress to a
lower bitrate?  I can see that as a pattern because the files with higher
bitrates are the ones that are louder.



-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Perdue
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 5:56 PM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [RWP] question about .flac files

The compression ratio of FLAC to PCM depends largely on dynamic range. Files
with a greater dynamic range will compress better than those with less
range, particularly those near the top of the DB scale.

> On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Scott Lawlor <sklawlor at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> I have a question about .flac files.
> 
> I notice that lately when I convert a .wav to .flac, the bitrate 
> ranges from 294kbps to 362kbps, the upper range not being much better 
> than an mp3 at 320kbps.  Other .flac files range from 579kbps to 
> 611kbps and even as high as 847kbps.
> 
> I always use the same program to convert and always use compression 
> level 8 and the source .wav files are always at a consistent 1411kbps 
> so I'm wondering what would cause such inconsistent results?
> 
> Thanks for the info if you have any.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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