I just experimented with 2 rips of the same album. ALAC and FLAC.
I've noticed that generally the FLAC files tend to be larger than the ALAC files. Does it mean that the ALAC is inferior in someway? Surely the more the compression the less the quality??
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QUOTE(rosso @ Jul 10 2005, 11:21 AM)
I just experimented with 2 rips of the same album. ALAC and FLAC.
I've noticed that generally the FLAC files tend to be larger than the ALAC files. Does it mean that the ALAC is inferior in someway? Surely the more the compression the less the quality??
I've noticed that generally the FLAC files tend to be larger than the ALAC files. Does it mean that the ALAC is inferior in someway? Surely the more the compression the less the quality??
It has nothing to do with quality since they're both lossless. That the files are smaller means that it is more efficient at that type of music.
QUOTE(rosso @ Jul 10 2005, 02:21 PM)
Surely the more the compression the less the quality??
Lossless is lossless, period; no data is permanently lost. Different lossless codecs just are better or worse at compressing the redundancies in the data, just like ZIP archives can occasionally be larger than RAR files with the same things inside.
Edit: I'm too slow!
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