Recompressing existing FLAC files to 8 (without duplication) |
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Recompressing existing FLAC files to 8 (without duplication) |
  May 22 2012, 19:03
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I have about 5,000 FLAC albums at various levels of compression. A lot are already at level 8, but many are not. Is there some nifty app. that will run through the non-8 compressed ones and recompress them to an 8 for me, checking its work?
I cannot see that dBpoweramp can do this. Thanks for any insights. |
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May 22 2012, 19:24
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Addendum: I stand corrected. This post has been edited by EagleScout1998: May 22 2012, 19:47 |
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May 22 2012, 19:31
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Group: Members Posts: 260 Joined: 30-May 08 From: UK Member No.: 53927 |
From the FLAC documentation page.
flac abc.flac --force I'm sure a little experimentation with foobar2000 convert and the --force option would lead you to a workable solution. |
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May 22 2012, 19:44
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Group: Super Moderator Posts: 4356 Joined: 23-June 06 Member No.: 32180 |
Is $info(codec_profile) populated by the compression level in the case of FLAC files?
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May 22 2012, 21:19
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Nope. The compression level information isn't stored anywhere in FLAC's metadata blocks, and I don't believe it can be derived from anything.
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May 22 2012, 22:00
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 dBpowerAMP developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 2653 Joined: 24-March 02 Member No.: 1615 |
Correct, FLAC does not indicate its compression rate (unless it was written to the ID Tags).
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May 23 2012, 02:04
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Group: Members Posts: 986 Joined: 19-November 06 Member No.: 37767 |
Not that it matters. Recompress them all. It's not like you'll need your slide rule and a ream of paper to do it. It very well may take two weeks, but idle cycles are the devil's playthings!
-------------------- Creature of habit.
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May 23 2012, 11:27
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In old days, there were lots of warnings that the --force might eat your files (the right thing for a converter to do is to write, compare, and then delete -- I believe this is the feature of dBpoweramp mentioned by EagleScout1998). If using --force, I would (and did) copy, recompress, verify and then copy back.
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