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 View Member Profile	Jul 15 2012, 20:22 Post #2
Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 15-July 12 Member No.: 101447	For example I tried a 15mb flac 1.2.1 -8 encoded file and transcoded the file using dBpoweramp's music converter to the same flac 1.2.1, only to observe the following file difference... 15,861,375 bytes (pre-conversion) 15,877,985 bytes (post-conversion) This sort of increase has occurred with each file I've tried, but cannot see why the two files In each case should not be exactly the same size? Apologies for choosing the wrong thread. First post and all...

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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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