That was Kent Williams, AKA Fab Five Freddy! :-)
-----Original Message----- 1. Flac is open source and runs everywhere. 2. Flac is DRM-free. 3. Flac is free. 4. Flac is fast. 5. There's an information-theoretical limit to how well you can losslessly compress audio files, and Flac is close enough to that limit, anything 'better' is only better by a very small margin.
