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by layer8 1381 days ago
Lossless compression to around 60% of WAV size. Also more widespread support for tags than with WAV. So even if you don’t particularly care about the space savings, converting to FLAC could still be beneficial.
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50% at the highest setting.
Depends on the audio content, not all genres are equally compressible. The average tends to be above 50%.