Flac Front End

[Cantrip]

Why does my flac front end run so slow? Just dl'd it after reformating my OS and its just crawling. Don't have any other programs running. ????

Thanks

[paddington]

do you mean it encodes slowly, or what, specifically?

[Cantrip]

The decoding takes forever.

[mooncusser]

Have you tried Trader's Little Helper?

[pmonk]

Originally Posted by Cantrip

The decoding takes forever.

What level are you decoding at?

[rspencer]

Originally Posted by pmonk66

What level are you decoding at?

Shouldn't matter. Decoding usually takes the same amount of time (within seconds) regardless of level. Encoding can vary dramatically dependant on the level of compression (8 taking the longest).

[jaygs]

Check for any background processes and the size of your swap space.

[paddington]

Originally Posted by rspencer

Shouldn't matter. Decoding usually takes the same amount of time (within seconds) regardless of level. Encoding can vary dramatically dependant on the level of compression (8 taking the longest).

the only thing I can think of that would slow down decoding (which is FLAC's strong point) would be a fragged-up hard drive with little free-space. If the heads are having to fly around to write the decoded file, it could decrease performace big time. An avg FLAC file shou dtake about 2-3 seconds to completely decode to WAV.

Check your har drive's frag state (take a screenshot) and free space and report back.

[Cantrip]

Okies. I'm at work now, but I'll try and do that tonight. Brand new hard drive (1TB WD)so wouldn't think that would be the problem. I am using Traders Little Helper.

Thanks.

[Cantrip]

I couldnt figure out how to post the screenshot, but the drive FFE is on didn't need to be defragged. theres only like 67 out of 500 gigs used up.