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Lossless Audio Compression => FLAC => Topic started by: thereeper on 2005-09-23 03:42:28

Title: Flac question
Post by: thereeper on 2005-09-23 03:42:28
Is there a tool that can tell me what the compression level is for my flac files? Winamp and Foobar200 just give me the tag info, but not the compression level (i.e. 0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8) not the total compression %.
Title: Flac question
Post by: tgoose on 2005-09-23 11:43:26
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Is there a tool that can tell me what the compression level is for my flac files? Winamp and Foobar200 just give me the tag info, but not the compression level (i.e. 0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8) not the total compression %.
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You can work out the compression percentage manually by dividing the bitrate by 1411 and multiplying by 100. Other than that I don't know, but I'm sure someone does.
Title: Flac question
Post by: Mono on 2005-09-23 15:28:37
That would be very difficult--it's not stored in any tag or metadata. However, it is theoretically possible to analyze a file and find out. Have a look at this thread (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31134):
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the encoder compression level setting is not stored by default, unless some third-party tool is doing it.  it's possible to analyze (with flac --analyze) the frame headers in a FLAC file to guess though.  but you have to understand the format well.

Josh
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