FLAC compression

[Fif91]

Hello
I have a raspberry pi 3, used as hifi player.
I will archive all my 300-400 CDs in FLAC files, to be played on.

I discovered the FLAC file compression can range from 0 (no compression) to 8 (high compression); from this value depends the file size.
I think more compressed the files are, more power the raspberry pi will used to. Are you agree ?

My question : what is the best compression to put on the FLAC, to be read smoothly from raspberry pi 3 ?

A 2Tb drive will store the audio files.

[Stephane]

Hi,

Try to encode a file with 0 compression and the same with 8 then play them, login thru ssh and use the top command to see how it behaves.
My guess is that with a 4 cores CPU you won't have any trouble with the maximum compression.

[hondagx35]

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