FLAC 1.1.3 is out

[Funkstar]

As the title says.

Changelog is here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/changelog.html

and download page is here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=13478

I'm going re-encode a couple of albums to see how much of a difference the improved compression makes.

[Fabula]

Nice. Let us know what your research comes up with. Let's hope with compression is significantly better.

[Funkstar]

Got round to doing a little testing this evening.

FLAC 1.1.1 -6
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Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 01.flac        34,746,441
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 02.flac        39,847,635
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 03.flac        49,837,157
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 04.flac        14,940,639
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 05.flac        22,505,958
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 06.flac        56,664,984
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 07.flac        48,523,004
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 08.flac        63,504,254
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 09.flac        13,347,604
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 10.flac        54,341,202
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 11.flac        95,480,000
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 12.flac        42,697,384
                             -------------------------
                             12 File(s)    536,436,262 bytes

FLAC 1.1.1 -8
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Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 01.flac        34,647,759
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 02.flac        39,615,286
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 03.flac        49,594,714
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 04.flac        14,823,598
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 05.flac        22,437,221
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 06.flac        56,257,984
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 07.flac        48,126,259
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 08.flac        62,910,992
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 09.flac        13,297,712
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 10.flac        53,916,172
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 11.flac        94,873,781
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 12.flac        42,509,883
                             -------------------------
                             12 File(s)    533,011,361 bytes
                                                 99.36 % of FLAC 1.1.1 -6

FLAC 1.1.3 -8
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Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 01.flac        34,511,990
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 02.flac        39,427,088
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 03.flac        49,134,975
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 04.flac        14,658,683
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 05.flac        22,090,753
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 06.flac        56,072,758
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 07.flac        47,562,514
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 08.flac        62,710,992
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 09.flac        12,859,723
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 10.flac        53,651,617
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 11.flac        94,267,117
Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter - 12.flac        42,180,372
                             -------------------------
                             12 File(s)    529,128,582 bytes
                                                 98.64 % of FLAC 1.1.1 -6
                                                 99.27 % of FLAC 1.1.1 -8

The reason for the -6 compression setting was that is what EAC was setup to encode to. For some reason i put that in instead of -8 a while ago, not sure why. I actually think a lot of the library is encoded at -5 as well.

Anyway, the difference in compression ratio is tiny. barely 0.7% reduction in the versions. So probably not a lot of point in re-FLACing your collection really.

But lets see what the maths are when you take a large library of 14,043 flac tracks.

Size on disk at the moment: 388,679,239,117 bytes (361.98 GB)
Estimated size when using FLAC 1.1.1 -8: 386,230,559,911 bytes (359.70 GB)
Estimated size when using FLAC 1.1.3 -8: 383,393,201,465 bytes (357.06 GB)

So thats almost 5GB of data i could save over my whole library.

Is it worth re-FLAC-ing my library? Perhaps. If i can get a script or utility that will just run in the background over the course of a few days and re-compress everything then, yeah, i might do that at some point. Would also be a good test for my X2 system. not done any kind of stress testing or benchmarks on it yet.

EDIT: Each album averages 384.12MB so an extra 5GB would let me store another 13 albums in the saved space

[autopilot]

Nice work Funkstar.