Quote from ecomaniac on December 4, 2025, 5:56 pm

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. 🙂  If you're referring to the compressed file, it's probably the variability of a data region's probability to be more or less compressed.

Quote from LastGreenseer on December 4, 2025, 7:19 pm

I was curious as to whether it resulted from the vinyl edition used or the cartridge /audio setup our host used for the rip.  Seems like the newer rips and the older (Pre-2018) rips can be larger than the circa 2019-2022 period.  Also, it seems like newer vinyl releases have larger file sizes than original or "promo" vinyl releases - perhaps due to compression?

Quote from Drybonz on December 4, 2025, 8:27 pm

It's not a digital rip, like a cd, which will be the same every time you rip it.  Because it's analog to digital all sorts of variables (like the equipment, etc) are going to slightly change the final rip size.  They should be roughly the same but each re-rip will be a little different.  I don't think we could say what variables are causing the final ripped files to be a certain size.