Upon seeing the log output of some Exact Audio Copy flac rips. I noticed that the Selected Bitrates differs. As an example here is one from a Tool Rip
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
EAC extraction logfile from 10. November 2009, 11:05
Tool / Undertow
Used drive : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D Adapter: 0 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -5 %s
As you can see the Selected bitrate is only 128 Kb/s, very low for a lossless audio file. Is this still considered lossless? Some other logs have very high bitrates, like 1024+ Kb/s.
So why the fluctuations and how much does this matter?
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