How do I change the FLAC compression level in Ubuntu?

I play my music/sync my devices with Banshee. I am thinking about buying a secondhand Toshiba Gigabeat F20 in order to upgrade my music collection to FLAC. Before I re-rip my music, I am conserned that I will not get the maximum quality with FLAC unless I use the least compression. How do I do that, and are there any changes(file size, etc) or advantages?

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I am conserned that I will not get the maximum quality with FLAC unless I use the least compression

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compression affects size and time to encode
read thru here
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t52929.html

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FLAC

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Originally Posted by blackbird3216

I play my music/sync my devices with Banshee. I am thinking about buying a secondhand Toshiba Gigabeat F20 in order to upgrade my music collection to FLAC. Before I re-rip my music, I am conserned that I will not get the maximum quality with FLAC unless I use the least compression. How do I do that, and are there any changes(file size, etc) or advantages?

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FLAC uses lossless compression, so the compression level has nothing to do with sound quality.