Hi all,
I am looking for a safe high-compression method in order to shrink temporarily my music back-up consisting from .ogg and .flac's.
Does anyone have a recommendation?
You can't!
ogg and flac are both compressed formats. The first is non-lossles. You could recompress these files with a higher compressionrate augmenting the loss!
flac is a lossless format. One of the best. You could try to convert it to ape, lossless too and a bit more effective (but not open source and APITA with linux, legaly only decompression under linux with high cpu usage). The compression gain compared to flac isn't worth the pain.
My recommandation: Buy a new HD (50€ for 500GB to 1TB) and enjoy more music to come.
Hi michaa7,
understod. I forget about it. Looks like the storage has to come (2 * 2 TB).
Quote from: "mylo"...Looks like the storage has to come (2 * 2 TB).
OMG, 4TB, that really a lot of music ;-)
Hi michaa7,
no it is less. I own all my music on CD, buyed and payed myself and ripped to my own pc. Today I have 2 *250 GB hardware and 70 GB of music doubled for backup, unfortunately in .ogg and .flac.
I made the fault starting ripping to .ogg. I assumed free formats are flawless.
But .ogg i not so, so I changed to .flac and ripped again...
I buy a pc all 7 to 8 years. Today I have 2 * 250 GB which is enough, but gets tight in the next time in order to back-up.
2 * 2 TB is future with raid...
Ooops, :shock:
I also store my ripped cd's in ogg format. Haven't been aware of any problems yet.
What was your bad experience with ogg which made you switch to flac ?
regards
Reiner