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2006-04-04 13:31:50

I encoded a track with EAC (-T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -8 %s) as per Wiki.  I encoded the same track with Foobar2000 -8 (it tells me no other options).

The files seem to differ in size.  Is this becuase of slight differences in the way they encode?  Am I doing something wrong in EAC?

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Reply #1 – 2006-04-04 13:55:05

You might want to run metaflac --list on them. My guess is that it's got something to do with padding.

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Reply #2 – 2006-04-04 14:05:03

But regardless, lossless is lossless, yes?  As long as you see nothing wrong with my EAC command line I'm happy.

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Reply #3 – 2006-04-04 14:06:37

Yes. metaflac --list should show you the same MD5 sum for both files.

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Reply #4 – 2006-04-04 14:36:05

yes, the very same.  What's strange is that Foobar will report the bitrate incorrectly for one of them.  there's a 1kbps difference.  Thanks for the help though!

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Reply #5 – 2006-04-04 22:10:40

Probably padding and tagging differences.