Hey tracktionarchive export projects...
I'm too scared to use this option, ive been using no compression 1:1... Then im using 7zip to compress for backups...
Is the lossless 2:1 compression good? I dont understand please help
just to back up mixing jobs
RonC
lossless compression 2:1?
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
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- KVRAF
- 2750 posts since 2 Feb, 2005 from Raincoast of Grayland
Lossless is lossless. If weren't it would be lossy. Tracktion uses FLAC. FLAC as in "Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio.."
Read more about it at:http://flac.sourceforge.net/
In other words it just skips the boring bits and leaves the good stuff.
Read more about it at:http://flac.sourceforge.net/
In other words it just skips the boring bits and leaves the good stuff.
perception: the stuff reality is made of.
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- KVRAF
- 3364 posts since 16 Feb, 2004 from atop a katamari
yes, if you're compressing it for backup with another program then you're just wasting time and energy i guess.
the only thing that might cause a problem with storing backups in a compressed format is that of corruption; if the data is uncompressed, then a scratch or something on the disc will be affecting less of the information. it's going to be slightly easier to recover more of the data from the wave file if it's just sitting on the disc as a normal wave file, due to all the data being present and literal. the compressed version has parts of the wave reduced away in storage, any damage to the disc will therefore make things more difficult to reconstruct.
just a little issue of course, and there's no sense getting scared about it.
the only thing that might cause a problem with storing backups in a compressed format is that of corruption; if the data is uncompressed, then a scratch or something on the disc will be affecting less of the information. it's going to be slightly easier to recover more of the data from the wave file if it's just sitting on the disc as a normal wave file, due to all the data being present and literal. the compressed version has parts of the wave reduced away in storage, any damage to the disc will therefore make things more difficult to reconstruct.
just a little issue of course, and there's no sense getting scared about it.
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