[linux-audio-user] Re: [LAM] A piece with singing...

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:50:58AM -0600, Steve D wrote:
> Wow--I'm going to start using flac! Your vocal track, at 50MB
> decompressed, was only 7.8MB flac-encoded!

Well, that's highly dependant on the source material - you shouldn't
expect such results to be the common case.
As far as I can tell, compression is roughly proportional to the average
signal level, and the amount of high frequencies.
2:1 or 1.5:1  are more typical of the files I've compressed with flac.

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Paul Winkler
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