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Originally Posted by Parato Optimal How much smaller are flac files compared to wavs?
Monkey's Audio form saves me about 50% over wav format.
When I was setting 128/320 min/max for variable rips I'd get say a 181-bitrate.
The same song ripped at 192/320 min/max would deliver @ 221-bitrate.
In light of the first rip, shouldn't the second rip have been as low as it could've gone which would have been 192-bitrate? |
FLACs are usually slightly larger than Monkey's Audio files => worse compression ratio, but faster encoding/decoding
As for the 192 minimum bitrate, your 181-bitrate file certainly has some frames of 224, 256 and even 320. If you set the minimum bitrate to 192, the higher kbps frames will remain as in your 128-minimum file, so the
average bitrate will always be higher than 192, unless
all frames use 192 or less also when using 128 as minimum bitrate.