a flac file is a compressed (to a greater or lesser extent) lossless file.I just bought a download from Deutsche Grammofon. To my amazement I can downloadi t as a zipped file. What's the point in selling "lossless" when they are zipped?
Anyone know the facts ablout zipped FLACs?
A zipped file is lossless, ie. if you zip a file and then unzip it, you will end up with a copy identical to the original.I just bought a download from Deutsche Grammofon. To my amazement I can downloadi t as a zipped file. What's the point in selling "lossless" when they are zipped?
Anyone know the facts ablout zipped FLACs?
Otherwise, it would ensure that the browser will not mishandle the file and simply either save it to the Downloads folder or invoke an extraction utility. Many browsers simply open the file as plain text when the file type (MIME) is unknown and clearly that would be a nuisance.
Why not take a WAV file and (a) convert it to FLAC, and (b) ZIP it? You wil then be able to see if it is far more efficient.I doubt ZIP will (losslessly) compress a bunch of FLAC files any further as FLAC is a far more efficient way of (losslessly) compressing an audio file.
As Matt states, this is just a way of packaging a bunch of files together into a single download.
Why not take a WAV file and (a) convert it to FLAC, and (b) ZIP it? You wil then be able to see if it is far more efficient.
(I think the compressions would be roughly the same.)
Yes.
It seems that you don't.
I did a quick google, and found a discussion that gave an example of WAV vs FLAC vs ZIP:I guess I could but I'm not sure I can be fagged tbh. Life's just too short.
FLAC certainly claims to be more efficient:
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio
http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__what_is
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