[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ ls -l
total 44992
-rw-r--r-- 1 gleam gleam 46071020 Oct  4 13:21 orig.wav
[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ time flac -5 -o flac-5.flac orig.wav

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

orig.wav: wrote 26468331 bytes, ratio=0.575

real    0m7.047s
user    0m5.272s
sys     0m0.484s
[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ time flac -8 -o flac-8.flac orig.wav

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

orig.wav: wrote 26161111 bytes, ratio=0.568

real    0m21.847s
user    0m17.489s
sys     0m0.492s
[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ time flac -8 -A "tukey(0.25)" -A "gauss(0.1875)" -b 4096 --sector-align -o flac-8-tukey-0.25-gauss-0.1875.flac orig.wav 

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

orig.wav: 100% complete, ratio=0.566

real    0m36.329s
user    0m29.234s
sys     0m0.576s
[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ ls -l 
total 121860
-rw-r--r-- 1 gleam gleam 26468331 Oct  4 13:21 flac-5.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 gleam gleam 26079553 Oct  4 13:21 flac-8-tukey-0.25-gauss-0.1875.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 gleam gleam 26161111 Oct  4 13:21 flac-8.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 gleam gleam 46071020 Oct  4 13:21 orig.wav
[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ time flac -d flac-5.flac

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

flac-5.flac: done         

real    0m3.093s
user    0m2.008s
sys     0m0.308s
[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ time flac -d flac-8.flac

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

flac-8.flac: done         

real    0m3.359s
user    0m2.052s
sys     0m0.376s
[gleam@blinky:~/test]$ time flac -d flac-8-tukey-0.25-gauss-0.1875.flac 

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

flac-8-tukey-0.25-gauss-0.1875.flac: done         

real    0m3.198s
user    0m2.080s
sys     0m0.360s