EAC & FLAC Settings Question

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On 17 Jun 2005 16:44:35 -0700, rob wrote:

> I have decided to (lossless) rip all my CDs with EAC and FLAC. I did
> some research and came up with what I believe are the settings that
> will give me the best possible results.
>[...]
> --best -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T
> "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T "comment=EAC 0.95beta2 / FLAC 1.1.2
> --best" %s %d

I just got done ripping my CD collection with EAC and FLAC. I tried using
-8 to get the highest compression. I found this took much longer than the
default (equivalent to -5), maybe four times as long (I don't remember the
exact amount). I did some tests of file size with the default and -8, and
found that the files were typically 0.2 percent smaller with -8 than with
the default. I ended up using the default, since 0.2 percent seemed like a
negligible gain for the large increase in time it took to encode them. You
might try a similar experiment and see what you come up with.

Andy