On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:48:51 +0200 Alf Haakon Lund <alf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello list, > > My googling did not provide me with sufficient answers, so I'm > directing my questions here ;-) > > I made a 1 hour long project in Ardour that exports as a 635 MB > wav-file. > > From Ardour the same project exports as a 566 MB FLAC file. However, > if instead I use SoundConverter to convert the WAV to FLAC, the > resulting file is 269 MB. > > Since both are FLAC I'd expect them to yield the same playback > (though after finding a report at hificritic [1], I wonder...) > > Is there a way to check if those FLAC files are indeed 'audio > identical'? > > And, obviously - if the audio quality is indeed the same - I much > prefer the smaller file. How can I tell Ardour to compress better? > > Thankful for any and all input, > Al F > > > 1. http://www.hificritic.com/flac-wav-sound-quality-research.html > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user You can compare the files by simply using diff. If they are different, then your best bet to find out the differences is sndfile-info. Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
