[citation][nom]santfu[/nom]yeah man, flac is the way forward lossless music compression, larger file sizes but these days data is cheap. Open too. It always amazes me that people are happy to hear "MP3 Player" but their eyes glaze when you start talking about "compression". Education needs to catch up with the world.But then, maybe it's just that i'm boring[/citation]
I agree with you fully. FLAC is honestly the best thing I've heard...EVER. Sure, file sizes often exceed 20MB for the average music file, but in return you are ensured that you don't lose much quality, if at all, from the recording studio, and it's free for anyone to use. And like santfu said, data is cheap. I still fondly remember my 128MB MP3 player, and how everyone thought that was the shit, and how I had to monitor the bitrates of my songs and rotate them regularly so I got to listen to my music collection of 50 songs.
Now, 16GB is standard. Large file sizes just don't really matter anymore. Heck, some episodes of my anime collection exceed 1GB for just 30 minutes.
Down with MP3, I say.