![]() ![]() So even if the reading and decompressing leads to an varying bandwidth, the buffer will equalize it and ensure the right timing. I can't imagine that any mediaplayer works without a buffer. The reading and decompression of compressed data resulted in a higher bandwidth than the reading of uncompressed data. Even in the nineties we have seen compressing and decompressing in (real) time by operating systems like DR DOS and later on even in MS DOS. Reading compressed data isn't a big job for a modern CPU. But even if it were the case - in times of harddisks and SSDs reading several hundred MB per second, some hundred KB of an album art don't mean any load at all for the CPUs of nowadays. So from my programming experience it is very unlikely that the album art is encoded like that. In case of 1.) or 2.) the size can't have any effect on the sound quality as the data will be read and ignored at the beginning of a file before the playback begins or the data will be read and ignored at the end of a file after the playback has stopped.Ĭases 3.) and 4.) wouldn't be handy and clever for use cases like deleting, changing or (pre)viewing an album art. IMO there are four possible ways how a album art can be encoded into a sound file. ![]() I can't imagine how the album art and its size can have an influence on the sound quality. These days storage is cheap and if your ears are golden enough use 0 level compression to get the transportable metadata and try different sizes of embedded images, 400x400 600圆00 800x800 1000x1000 see if you can tell any difference.Īs i said since storage is cheap I use 0 just in case. The same has also been said about the size of artwork in the files with smaller images having less of an affect. MichaelWhile all levels of compression in the Flac file should decompress to the same file there have been some who have pointed their fingers at the renderer and the cpu load used to decompress the file and how this affects the rest of system with electrical noise and psu load. The XLD file was more lifelike - real.Īre there any settings that I should make in DBpoweramp to maximize sound quality? Myself and a friend (on his system) both preferred the sound of the XLD file. The only setting changed on both programs was setting FLAC compression to none. I conducted a listening test between the same file converted in DBpoweramp and XLD. ![]() I am converting 24/96 WAV to FLAC on Mac. DBpoweramp newbie here but did search a little before posting this. ![]()
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