by MiPi » Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:03 am
Murdie: FLAC is lossless (ALAC too), so it nearly always will be significantly larger than lossy AAC/M4A (MP3, etc.), it means also higher bitrate, but no quality loss. You have compression level set to 0, it means, you want the fastest FLAC compression at the cost of larger file. If you want to achieve smaller file (but slower compression and slightly more demading decoding), you need to set this level to some higher value, I would recommend 6, it seems to be quite good compromise.
Murdie: FLAC is lossless (ALAC too), so it nearly always will be significantly larger than lossy AAC/M4A (MP3, etc.), it means also higher bitrate, but no quality loss. You have compression level set to 0, it means, you want the fastest FLAC compression at the cost of larger file. If you want to achieve smaller file (but slower compression and slightly more demading decoding), you need to set this level to some higher value, I would recommend 6, it seems to be quite good compromise.