Flac To Flac Transcode Increases File Size?

Flac To Flac Transcode Increases File Size?, [TOS #6: moved from General Audio]

sgold View Member Profile	Jul 15 2012, 19:11 Post #1
Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 15-July 12 Member No.: 101447	Hello. Does anybody know why transcoding from flac to flac gives a slight increase In file size? I noticed this when transcoding a -8 flac track to -8 flac, despite not changing anything about the file structure, tags etc.. The reason I was initially doing this was to see if I could remove embedded artwork and match the pre-embedded artwork file size by transcoding flac to flac. However i noticed an increase In file size was being observed even on a basic, minimal-tagged flac file. The transcodes were made using dBpoweramp's music converter. Regards Scott

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sgold Flac To Flac Transcode Increases File Size? Jul 15 2012, 19:11

db1989 1. Post in the right place 2. Include some actual ... Jul 15 2012, 19:18

sgold For example I tried a 15mb flac 1.2.1 -8 encoded f... Jul 15 2012, 20:22

spoon When dBpoweramp writes ID Tags to FLAC files, it a... Jul 15 2012, 20:37

sgold Many thanks Spoon Jul 15 2012, 20:41

JJZolx But the flac.exe encoder also adds padding when en... Jul 15 2012, 21:32

soundping QUOTE (JJZolx @ Jul 15 2012, 15:32) But t... Jul 16 2012, 06:35

JJZolx QUOTE (soundping @ Jul 15 2012, 23:35) I ... Jul 16 2012, 11:17

Porcus Adding padding means in 8kB before the real metada... Jul 15 2012, 22:22

Porcus OP says FLAC -8 was used for both. Cannot one us... Jul 16 2012, 13:34

sgold That's correct Porcus, both were -8 original r... Jul 16 2012, 14:44

Porcus QUOTE (sgold @ Jul 16 2012, 15:44) Could ... Jul 16 2012, 15:04

sgold It seems the filesize does not alter after the fir... Jul 16 2012, 16:00

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