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Inconsistency in compression rate edit
The article mentions twice a typical rate of 50-60%, and later it says "FLAC achieves compression rates of 30–50% for most music." anoko_moonlight (talk) 04:28, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
- Do you mean it has to say 40-50% to be correct? C'mon +-10%. --Kays (talk) 22:28, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
- What this community member meant, or so I believe, was that it should state one approximate rate which is agreed upon and not two which partially contradict each other. --lmaxmai (talk) 00:15, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
- After FLAC compression, the file size is typically reduced to 50-60% of the original size, which is the same as saying that it is reduced by 40-50%. Although previous versions may have been confusing, I think the current text in the article states this accurately without any contradiction. LiberatorG (talk) 15:24, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
- What this community member meant, or so I believe, was that it should state one approximate rate which is agreed upon and not two which partially contradict each other. --lmaxmai (talk) 00:15, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
How does it work? edit
There is no indication in the article how the codec achieves its lossless compression. That's a major omission, I'd say. 83.104.249.240 (talk) 21:14, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
Encoding Processing Power edit
I would like that article would list Processing Power demands on encoding FLAC, compared to other compression format like mp3.
I would like to know, do I save CPU and pay more in RAM (or whatever it is it is happening), when choosing to use FLAC as PulseAudio Home Network Broadcast Sink as compare to Mp3. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.187.193.217 (talk) 15:06, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata ref broken edit
The reference associated with
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|reference|P348}}
in the first infobox is not displaying. The Wikidata itself looks reasonable. I'm not sure how this stuff works. Maybe someone can help. ~Kvng (talk) 15:37, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hey Kvng - I noticed this as well. The problem was that the reference in wikidata had extra fields that prevented it from being run through the citation transformation. I just removed that reference and replaced it with a new reference to the FLAC website, which is in keeping with previous entries. Mausmalone (talk) 21:34, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
This broke again at some point - I asked for help and eventually managed to fix it (the wikidata editor is... not the most user-friendly in the world). Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:12, 19 February 2024 (UTC)