fuze question about flac compression level?

[booger19a]

hi,
Is the fuze picky about what compression level I set on my FLAC files? Can anyone share the encoding options that they're succesfully using to encode their FLAC files for playback on the fuze?

thanks!

[CrowdAds]

[librarian]

this is my string but I use my files in my home theater system so I get larger files.

--best -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" %s

Fuze plays them just fine (version 1 with latest firmware)

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by booger19a

hi,
Is the fuze picky about what compression level I set on my FLAC files? Can anyone share the encoding options that they're succesfully using to encode their FLAC files for playback on the fuze?

thanks!

When they added FLAC compatibility to the Fuze and Clip, I tried it out....I ripped CD's with MediaMonkey to FLAC, compression level 5(the default) and they worked fine. I never tried different levels though.

But in the end, I realized what some of the more advanced users were saying was right....that it's not worth the space trade-off to use FLAC on a portable. LAME V0, or Ogg Vorbis q6 or q7, I couldn't hear the difference from FLAC. Maybe you have better ears than me though.

[saratoga]

As I understand it, the compression level has little or no relevance to flac decoders, so I think they should all work the same.