RE: Re: EAC to Output to Uncompressed FLAC

Fred,

 

Thanks for the clarification.  I misunderstood.  I didn’t realize that latoak34 talking about “compressing” a flac file by zipping it.  I also have no idea why someone would look to zip a flac file except maybe to have a single file containing multiple flac files.  I was just commenting that I didn’t find his result of a larger file after zipping it strange as he was compressing a compressed file and that as I recalled this usually results in a larger file.

 

Mike

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 5:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EAC] Re: EAC to Output to Uncompressed FLAC

 

  

From: M mwjkmail:

 

“I have a .flac file of the song Dreams by The Cranberries.  I put it into a .zip file.  The .zip file is 464 bytes larger, so how is that compressed compared to the FLAC file.”

 

I am certainly no expert on the behind the scenes working of compression algorithms.  If one were to put a compressed audio file into a zip file it would seem you are trying to compress a compressed file and as I recall this often leads to a larger file size rather than a smaller one.  So I am not surprised that would happen, but why would you look to zip a flac file?

I was answering user latoak34 who claimed that a FLAC file was only compressed if it was in a ZIP file.  He wrote:  "No, FLAC can be uncompressed just like any other file that can be either a file or a zipped file.”

 

We agree:  A FLAC file is, by its nature, compressed.  That’s what the Free Lossless Audio Codec exists for — to compress audio.

 

(Note:  Andre was correct in pointing out that dbPoweramp produces something they call an uncompressed flac file, but it really isn’t a FLAC file because it’s just a Vorbis Container file with a WAV in it. The FLAC codec isn’t used to encode the audio.)

 

Regards,
  Fred Maxwell
  Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup