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2011/01/19 11:56:50 (permalink)

Audio File Size Management

There's a thread in the Home Studio forum on this very subject and I was wondering what some of you folks with good hearing thought about some of the 'lossless' formats available.
On my computer I have the Windows Audio Converter and one of the formats available is Windows Media Audio Lossless. It converted a 49.5 MB file down to 22.9 MB, and I can't tell the difference.
Not that I need something like that now; I have HD space to burn (pun intended), but would lossless compression be something any of you would recommend, and what experience have you had with it?

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    mgh
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    Re:Audio File Size Management 2011/01/19 12:01:56 (permalink)
    personally i can't really hear the difference between uncompressed Cd quality (44.1/16 bit) and hq mp3 (320kbps), never mind a lossless format like FLAC. i guess if you were an audiophile and listening to some style of music, say chamber classical or solo acoustic guitar, where very subtle dynamic changes occur, on high-end equipment, or used to higher fidelity (say blu-ray or SACD) then the lossless format may make a difference. as someone with 300gb+ of mp3s though, i need space-saving as much as higher quality!

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    Re:Audio File Size Management 2011/01/19 12:04:52 (permalink)
    I cannot hear a difference between wave and WMA.  I sometimes can hear a difference (depending on the genre and the music itself) on 320kbps mp3's - and as the rate goes lower I can hear more of a difference each step.  I can always hear a difference between 128k mp3's and wave files.

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    Re:Audio File Size Management 2011/01/19 12:35:08 (permalink)
    With hard drives being so cheap, i can't imagine why anyone would bother converting the WAVs.
    I'll let a project get as big as it wants to do, and when I've got a solid "permanent" mix i'll run the 'Clean Audio Folder' script.  And whatever it ends up as, is how big it will be.
    I just paid $75 for a 1.5Tb drive...

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    Re:Audio File Size Management 2011/01/19 13:40:59 (permalink)
    dunno if that was for me Slugbaby or the OP in the original thread, but as i have a 120gb iPod i need to use mp3. i'd like a 500gb personal mp3 player though...if they existed!

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