[peel] compress audio

[Alasdair Macdonald]

The most popular and versatile cross-platform lossless compression
right now is flac. Retaining .wav files is unnecessary; flac will
typically reduce to 60%, sometimes smaller, giving you lots more
storage space for your £.

On 16/01/2008, rockerq@... <rockerq@...> wrote:
>       For true lossless compression either backup as WAV or AIF (Hard drive space is currently cheaper than it's ever been!) - or save some discspace by using FLAC ( I guess a disadvantage is that you can't then burn the files direct to audio CD without first cobverting to Wav or AIF)
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>  To save more discspace use mp3 @ 320kbps - although this does lose data, the results are arguably hard to distinguish aurally from the original.
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>  Cheers!
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>  Rocker
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>  PS All you people making Peel shows available to download - thanks! - I would always rather spend longer on the download if I get a higher quality file out of it!
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>    I appreciate that about a month there was a discussion about the best way to compress audio.
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>   Well this has turned into a real issue for me because recently a 500gb hard drive died on me taking with it 5years worth of music saved to wav format. Fortunately I do have copies on cd for normal playing. It now seems a good idea to back up my back up by having a compressed version for all my audio collection going back over 30years (since I was a teen)
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>    Can any one suggest a format that would allow for lossless compression? Can anyone suggest a good program that can do this? I have been browsing www.download.www and there does appear to be a number of options but if I am going to start backing up my back up for the last 30years I would appreciate any thoughts from others who have been doing the same thing :) Gordon>>