FLAC remains a little lossy (why is there a slider from 1 to 10 if its lossless?). It will not beat a 24bit wav, but I do think FLAC is very high quality. I'm just crazy when it comes to audio quality :)
I'm not saying you should use wavs in your game! I'm saying the dev team can download your file, test out different compression algos, and get a better result than if they had a FLAC to compress from.
I also want to point out a 200 MB file isn't much anymore... Even a 500 MB file. We all have crazy fast connections now, even on our damned phones, so why the hate for an uncompressed format?
Personnally, I would tend to go wav and compressed (either mp3 or ogg), so users can recompress as they wish. FLAC is a very (very) nice compression, but if you can afford the bandwidth nothing will allow more flexibility than a wav.
@qubodop a wav in a zip won't compress it much (or at all). Your best bet is FLAC or Apple lossless (recently open-sourced).
Can I be blunt? I really like this, but I feel the sounds repeat a bit too much :/ At the same time, they create some kind of repeating "melody", so maybe its good. Anyways, congrats again.
Haha! Good job man, sounds so gritty!
WOW! Perfect mood, perfect track. Very impressed!
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Download http://www.64studio.com distro. They have all you need, and more ;)
FLAC remains a little lossy (why is there a slider from 1 to 10 if its lossless?). It will not beat a 24bit wav, but I do think FLAC is very high quality. I'm just crazy when it comes to audio quality :)
I'm not saying you should use wavs in your game! I'm saying the dev team can download your file, test out different compression algos, and get a better result than if they had a FLAC to compress from.
I also want to point out a 200 MB file isn't much anymore... Even a 500 MB file. We all have crazy fast connections now, even on our damned phones, so why the hate for an uncompressed format?
SD2 FTW!!! lol, just kidding ;)
Personnally, I would tend to go wav and compressed (either mp3 or ogg), so users can recompress as they wish. FLAC is a very (very) nice compression, but if you can afford the bandwidth nothing will allow more flexibility than a wav.
@qubodop a wav in a zip won't compress it much (or at all). Your best bet is FLAC or Apple lossless (recently open-sourced).
+1
edit: Argh! Posting this stopped the song :(
OH YEAH! Loving this :)
Can I be blunt? I really like this, but I feel the sounds repeat a bit too much :/ At the same time, they create some kind of repeating "melody", so maybe its good. Anyways, congrats again.
This is really nice. yd you rock :)
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