Forcing a flac re-encode

[mightyoakbob]

Hi,
I'm currently trying to tidy my flac music library and have found some albums that have very large image files >2MB inside each flac file. I have reduced these to less than 200K but found that no matter what editor I use the file size doesn't diminish. I think the area I've saved gets marked as padding. Is there a way to force a re-encode so that the file size shrinks down?

Thanks

Bob.

[garym]

Re: Forcing a flac re-encode

Have you tried just converting FLAC to FLAC using batch converter?

[mightyoakbob]

Re: Forcing a flac re-encode

Have you tried just converting FLAC to FLAC using batch converter?

No I have not, It never crossed my mind that I could do that. Do you know that works or are you just suggesting an idea?

Thanks.

Bob.

[garym]

Re: Forcing a flac re-encode

It works.

[BOOTP]

Re: Forcing a flac re-encode

By far the easiest way (if you have foobar 2000) is to select all the files and right-click Utilities and then Optimize file layout.

You can even save more space by using Optimize file layout + minimize file size, but note any further changes to tags will be slower because there is no padding at all with this option.

[garym]

Re: Forcing a flac re-encode

By far the easiest way (if you have foobar 2000) is to select all the files and right-click Utilities and then Optimize file layout.

You can even save more space by using Optimize file layout + minimize file size, but note any further changes to tags will be slower because there is no padding at all with this option.

Good point

[mightyoakbob]

Re: Forcing a flac re-encode

Oh right. Thank you very much.
Bob.

[mightyoakbob]

Re: Forcing a flac re-encode

Yes, I do have Foobar 2000 but. I didn't know it could do that.
Thanks for that, really interesting, I'll give it a go.
Bob.