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☖ Forums → Music Discussion and Showcase → Lossless Format Comparison
Lossless Format Comparison
2005-05-04, 10:03 PM #1
first of all i must point to this comparison

not all formats covered in that comparison will be in this one

now since lossless all sounds the same this will be more about file size using the highest compression level (wavpack can go slightly higher by adding in -x but the encoding speed takes too much of a hit for 1MB of difference)

this was done using [WITH_TEETH]


WAV 566MB

FLAC 360MB
ALAC 359MB
Monkey's Audio 344MB
OptimFROG 344MB
Shorten 387MB
WavPack 349MB
WMA Lossless 351MB

encoding times
FLAC ~4-5minutes
ALAC less than 2 minutes
Monkey's Audio ~6minutes
OptimFROG 1 hour
Shorten about 90seconds
WavPack ~1minute 45 seconds
WMA Lossless just under 2 minutes

as you can see FLAC and monkey's audio take about the same amount of time to compress from wav while most of the others take under 2 minutes

OptimFROG is excessively slow considering it took A FULL HOUR to encode an album that takes less time to play

which is the best? based on features, compression, and encoding speed... WavPack...

but when including things like hardware support FLAC and ALAC are the only 2 that are supported by any hardware players at this time
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2005-05-05, 12:36 PM #2
Shouldn't this just go in your other thread?
The music industry is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
2005-05-05, 4:02 PM #3
NO.
2005-05-05, 5:21 PM #4
the other thread is a LOSSY format comparison
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2005-05-05, 9:32 PM #5
So we can't just have one sticky thread for all format-related things?
The music industry is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
2005-05-05, 10:41 PM #6
because lossless compression and lossy compression are different enough to have separate threads...
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2005-05-06, 9:29 AM #7
fine, but I'm not stickying two threads
The music industry is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

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