Will give them switches a try.
We asked ourselves whether storing .aif/.wav and converting real-time OR storing .zip OR storing flac would be the way to keep our archive.
What we plan to do:
- apply ordinary sound processing (radio style: few dynamic, high stereo range, quality reduction)
- convert down to 22 or 24 kHz
- reconvert to 44.1 kHz
- apply lowpass filter above 15.5 kHz
- convert to MP3 128k
The source already has the first three steps in it - so the matter was how to store sources best.
The soft and less dynamic treble version is what we want. It makes the listener kind of "distanced" to the sound, but that is what shall differ our sound from the CD versions which are straight "in your ear!" ^^
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Using -e -p really could be interesting.
I am sorry, it didn't do it. See the results of my console:
>flac "44100.wav" -e -p
flac 1.3.1, Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Josh Coalson, 2011-2014 Xiph.Org Foundatio
n
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details.
44100.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown chunk 'PAD ' (use --keep-foreign-metadata t
o keep)
44100.wav: wrote 123027425 bytes, ratio=0,866
That 'PAD' stuff should not matter at all.
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Results in comparation:
44100 Hz wav
138.802 KB
flac normal parameters
120.311 KB
flac with parameters -e -p
120.144 KB
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