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Topic: FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10? (Read 5839 times) previous topic - next topic
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FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10 without loosing quality? Just for storage reasons. Or will I loose too much quality?
The one I tryed reduced the size of 25.427.868b to 18.264.476b and the kbps of 500 to ~350.

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #1 –
Converting from lossless (FLAC) to lossy (Ogg Vorbis, I assume) will result in quality loss.  However, at that bitrate it is exceptionally unlikely that your ears will ever tell the difference.

Does that help?

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #2 –
Yes helped
It was just some kind of insecurity on my side. Thanks.

When I reencode it to flac it goes to 594kbps and the size is 30.211.975. The initial kbps (in FLAC) was 500 in this convertion. But this doesn't matter, I will decide later ... after some tests with some others files.
Thanks again. That's all.

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #3 –
Let me know if you'd like any help in designing your tests.

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #4 –
Do you have any idea?

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #6 –
I forgot this, I already used lossyWAV some time ago. let's see.
I just discover that ogg vorbis accept bitrates of 500kbps, so I think about use it.

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #7 –
Only problem, AFAIK with OGG is if you want to transcode later, you're better off going from Lossy.FLAC > MP3/OGG than from OGG High Bitrate > MP3/OGG Lower bitrate.

C.

EDIT:
Slightly OT, but I'd be interested in the results of a "Transparent Lossy" > "Lower Bitrate Lossy" transcode listening test:
  • OGG Vorbis Max > Lame MP3 x? bitrate
  • Lame MP3 320 > OGG Vorbis x? bitrate
  • LossyWAV portable > Lame MP3 x? bitrate
  • LossyWAV portable > OGG Vorbis x? bitrate
PC = TAK + LossyWAV  ::  Portable = Opus (130)

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #8 –
If you don't need lossless just use 200kbps MP3 right now and be done with it.
 

FLAC ~500kbps could be Converted to Ogg Q10?

Reply #9 –
Quote from: servimo on
When I reencode it to flac it goes to 594kbps and the size is 30.211.975. The initial kbps (in FLAC) was 500 in this convertion. But this doesn't matter, I will decide later ... after some tests with some others files.


Servimo, why would you even want to do that! Why would you re-encode the ogg back to flac?  I might be misunderstanding you but are you sure that you understand about transcoding between various lossy formats and the reasons why it's not advised?

Also, what was the source of the original flac file? Are you sure it was a lossless format because 500kbps is pretty low for flac.