Re: [Harp-L] Jason's 12/1 show is huge

[Garry Hodgson <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave R. Fertig" <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm curious why the downloads of JRNB's 12/1 show is in the one flac 
> format, rather than the 11/30's variety of 4 (Flac, "Ogg Vorbis" and 2 MP3 
> formats).

i realized last night that something had gone wrong in the upload 
process, and that the derived formats (mp3, ogg) had not been 
created.  i contacted the LMA admins, and they were going to fix 
that.  doesn't look like they're done yet, but hopefully soon.

> The flac format appears to be very data heavy, apparently over a 
> gigabyte.  

flac is a lossless compression, so it'll always be a good bit larger
than mp3 or other lossy compression schemes.  as it is, the flac
files are only about 60% the size of the original wav files.  audio
files are big, and there's three almost full disks here.  at 700M
per disk, that's over 2 gig.

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