fallsroad
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A 64.2MB WAV encoded at High in APE leads to a file of 40.4MB.
FLAC at level 8, which does not suffer the anomalies of APE at the highest settings, leads to a file of 41.2MB
Hardly a waste of space in an era of 2TB hard drives.
Personally, I stopped using APE specifically because of the issues with Extra High and Insane encoding. That lag is a bug, not a feature. To each their own, of course.
Originally Posted by leeperry /img/forum/go_quote.gif yes, the "Extra High" and "Insane" compression APE levels are laggy when you seek, but "high" isn't and still compresses better than FLAC -8 IME. I don't care for replay gain(I'm a bit-perfect kinda guy), neither do I care for error correction(are you sure FLAC carries ECC? anyway APE is bit-perfect...never had any glitch anyway, FLAC is fine...just a waste of space for PC-only playback. |
A 64.2MB WAV encoded at High in APE leads to a file of 40.4MB.
FLAC at level 8, which does not suffer the anomalies of APE at the highest settings, leads to a file of 41.2MB
Hardly a waste of space in an era of 2TB hard drives.
Personally, I stopped using APE specifically because of the issues with Extra High and Insane encoding. That lag is a bug, not a feature. To each their own, of course.