Try it. Once you go FLAC there's no going back to MP3s. Everything that's on the CD is encoded even the warts on not so perfect recordings!
Besides, hard drive storage is pretty cheap nowadays. I bought a 300 gig drive and I haven't even used a third of it. The main reason MP3 was adopted was the narrow bandwidth of dial-up internet connections and limited hard drive space a decade ago. I first found out about MP3s in late 1997, how time flies! CD technology was ahead of early PC computers. CDs were introduced in 1982 and could hold 650 MB of data. By contrast IBM's PCs of those years used 240 KB low density floopy drives for storage and some didn't even have hard drives! While CDs already offered full uncompressed linear PCM coding in 1982, MP3s compression was, in my opinion, a step backwards for convenience and economy. Well no more! Now with broadband, WI-FI streaming and huge storage space the time is ripe for lossless music encoding. -- crooner Squeezebox 3 Lite Audio DAC60 tube DAC Pioneer SX-1980 Vandersteen 2Ce Signature Vandersteen 2W ------------------------------------------------------------------------ crooner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
