> .. Now with broadband, WI-FI streaming and huge storage space > the time is ripe for lossless music encoding.
I'd agree, but for those of us with collections of rapidly growing ~2k CDs and 500 LPs, even with 400G hard drives the time doesn't seem to be quite now, unfortunately. I decided on MP3 because it seems the most future-proof choice and will probably be supported for a long time. I decided on 256k after long listening to 320k vs 256k vs direct CD sound. And continue to do tests. Wherever I think that I hear limitations of MP3 (and admittedly it is close to the resolution ability of my ear), it doesn't seem to matter whether it's 256k or 320k. Also, I wqant mirrored drives for reliability - I can't afford to lose my music given the investment of time that goes into digitizing stuff - especially the LPs. I'd like to go lossless for *some* music (the vast majority of commercial music isn't recorded for anyone to hear differences) that I truly treasure. But my concern with lossless formats is that I don't think things have panned out yet, and I'd be afraid to bet on a format that proves obsolete a few years down the line. The big WMA vs Apple vs FLAC war probably hasn't even started yet. -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
