[LAU] Ardour 4 audio export FLAC questions

Alf Haakon Lund alf at mellomrommet.no
Sun Sep 11 09:48:51 UTC 2016


Hello list,

My googling did not provide me with sufficient answers, so I'm directing 
my questions here ;-)

I made a 1 hour long project in Ardour that exports as a 635 MB wav-file.

 From Ardour the same project exports as a 566 MB FLAC file. However, if 
instead I use SoundConverter to convert the WAV to FLAC, the resulting 
file is 269 MB.

Since both are FLAC I'd expect them to yield the same playback (though 
after finding a report at hificritic [1], I wonder...)

Is there a way to check if those FLAC files are indeed 'audio identical'?

And, obviously - if the audio quality is indeed the same - I much prefer 
the smaller file. How can I tell Ardour to compress better?

Thankful for any and all input,
Al F


1. http://www.hificritic.com/flac-wav-sound-quality-research.html


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