[LAU] Ardour 4 audio export FLAC questions

[Alf Haakon Lund]

On 11. sep. 2016 12:16, Bent Bisballe Nyeng wrote:

> My guess is that SoundConverter decimates the sample value or that the
> sample values were decimated during export to wav.
> If you run the 'file' command on each of the FLAC files you'll probably
> see that the one exported from ardour is 24 bit and the one made with
> SoundConverter is 16 bit.

Thank you, that's the case. I asked Ardour to export to a 16-bit FLAC 
and the task was performed even more efficient than through 
SoundConverter: resulting file is 262 MB.

I assume that for CD quality I won't need 24-bit? As a hobby musician 
and radio DJ, will I ever?

> If you export to 24 bit wav or perhaps even float wav from Ardour and
> then run the 'flac --best' command on it yourself how big is the
> resulting file then?

Being satisfied for now to export to 16-bit, I will not bother with this 
test.

Thank you very much for your helpful answer!

Alf