[geeks] MP3 vs uncompressed

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Uncompressed audio on the other hand is a 150kB audio.  I just came across
> something called FLAC (seen it before but hadn't been thinking of it at
> time of discusion). http://flac.sourceforge.net/  FLAC compresses audio
> in a completely lossless manor to about half the size.  So, now perfect
> audio copies are only 75kB/s, which means your music collection would only
> take 225gigs versus 450gigs.

I meant to point this out before when uncompressed audio came up.  The guy
who wrote it even has changed the encoder to optionally put out Ogg FLAC
files.  (For those who don't know, Ogg is a container format for many
stream types, Vorbis is just a codec that uses Ogg as its container).

--Kurt