Compressed flac versus uncompressed flac

Posted by: LeMans844 on 11 September 2015

Do people notice a delay between tracks as compressed flac loads the next track?

I noticed this particularly on an album with many short tracks - Elgar Enigma Variations, also  Peer Gynt This was on PC using asset server & media player.   I hadn't noticed via ND5XS itself, which happily sees asset on the PC but not media player.  But I hadn't listened to either via ND5XS so unable to say one way or the other

I  made two changes and the tracks loaded correctly. Using  foobar rather than Media player and uncompressed flac.  Compressed the flac again - level 8 and tracks load in a timely fashion. So its the asset server / WMP UI possibly because on same PC possibly not.  Anyway will stick with asset/foobar  much better than asset/media player.

I was in the process of re ripping all my cd to wav from a variety of format in preparation fro the aforementioned ND5XS  a - g are now in wav.  But I noticed that most if not all of these where I have edited the tags manually using wmp  to correct missing data as I ripped the cd are not  properly understood by asset server.  The album is there but info is missing.  Tried editing with perfecttunes id tag but the changes would not save. Ripping again as flac corrects this as mostly the information is all there and you can modify with id tag.

 

So back to flac - do people favour compressed or uncompressed.  Technically there should be no difference - but does the little overhead of decompressing change this?

Posted on: 11 September 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

actually technically there is a major difference between FLAC compressed and uncompressed. There should however be no SQ difference.. But there is often because of possible decoding noise. Uncompressed FLAC simply uses raw PCM in a FLAC wrapper.

 

Posted on: 12 September 2015 by Harry
Originally Posted by LeMans844:

I was in the process of re ripping all my cd to wav from a variety of format in preparation fro the aforementioned ND5XS  a - g are now in wav.  But I noticed that most if not all of these where I have edited the tags manually using wmp  to correct missing data as I ripped the cd are not  properly understood by asset server.  The album is there but info is missing.  Tried editing with perfecttunes id tag but the changes would not save. Ripping again as flac corrects this as mostly the information is all there and you can modify with id tag.

This was a constant niggle sometimes bordering on an embuggerance, until I got a copy of dBpoweramp. I've never had a WAV tagging problem since. For what that's worth.