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Originally Posted by Filmmaker
Oh, sure, sure. I’m merely confused by the implication that you can compress audio into a pancake and still call it lossless. Maybe I’m comparing apples to oranges but there’s a quantitative and qualitative difference between a 192 kbps mp3 file and a 320 kbps one. Where is the point reached where something can’t fairly be considered lossless anymore because too many data bits have been removed? If it’s lossless at 3,596 kbps and still lossless at 2,090 kbps, what got taken out of the zeroes and ones of the data? Just a bunch of zeroes?
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Specifically with FLAC, compressing above level 5 does very little to reduce the size of the file, just increases the amount of time to encode the FLAC. Decoding takes about the same amount of time regardless of the compression level…thanks Wikipedia
So no, it basically won’t let you compress the file size down further and break its lossless designation.