There was only a <1 KB difference between any of the builds or 1.3.2 for 44/16, using Muse's "Take a Bow" from that old post.
Just to be sure that it isn't padding or seektable ... tried
metaflac.exe --dont-use-padding --remove-all
?
(It will also remove the vendor (version) string, so make a copy first.)
You know, I don't think I've ever used metaflac or even flac.exe itself, it's usually piped through via foobar or EAC or something.
If you ever want a lazy way to do operations like that for all FLAC files in a folder + its subfolders,
FOR /F "tokens=*" %G IN ('dir /b /s *.flac') DO metaflac.exe --dont-use-padding --remove-all "%G"
No fancy table this time
Before:
2021-09-18 01:04 PM 32,819,331 01 Take A Bow 1.3.2.flac
2021-09-18 01:09 PM 32,819,357 01 Take A Bow flac-v1.3.3.git-ce6dd6b-x64.flac
2021-09-18 01:07 PM 32,819,370 01 Take A Bow 1.3.3_313ab58-Ozz.flac
2021-09-18 01:10 PM 32,819,379 01 Take A Bow mingw-w64-x86_64-flac-git-1.3.3.r3909.7a35c528.flac
After:
2021-09-18 11:46 PM 32,689,426 01 Take A Bow 1.3.2.flac
2021-09-18 11:46 PM 32,689,452 01 Take A Bow flac-v1.3.3.git-ce6dd6b-x64.flac
2021-09-18 11:46 PM 32,689,474 01 Take A Bow mingw-w64-x86_64-flac-git-1.3.3.r3909.7a35c528.flac
2021-09-18 11:46 PM 32,689,476 01 Take A Bow 1.3.3_313ab58-Ozz.flac
The "giant" 4616 kbps FLAC out of curiosity:
2019-10-22 06:18 PM 189,548,998 01 - Beautiful World.flac - Before
2021-09-18 11:53 PM 183,454,510 01 - Beautiful World.flac - After
2021-09-18 03:09 PM 183,586,602 01 - Beautiful World.wav - Still tagged with embedded album art too BTW...
2021-09-18 03:05 PM 446,533 heart station.jpg