John Stimson Wrote: > > So what's the downside of FLAC? > > > > - Disk space. But disks are cheap. Cheap cheap cheap. If you > don't want noisy disks near where you relax or work, don't put them > there. Put them somewhere else. > > Did I mention that disks are cheap?> >
And so is wireless networking. Combine the two and there's no reason to have to listen to computer fan/HDD noise in your listening room. You can get 802.11g wireless network adapters cheaper than you can buy cat-5 cable. If you're worried about flac being sucked up and perverted by some big company, keep a copy of the encoder/decoder software on a CDROM somewhere. You'll always be able to run it when you need it, like when/if you want to change your library to some other format. In another year or so, mp3 players will disappear because the cost of storage will be so low everyone will go lossless, first with lossless compression like flac. aac or wma, then in another couple years, you'll just be storing .wav files (for CDs, until you need to store 24 bit 96 ksps stuff). At the rate things are going, terabyte drives will be $100 in another 12-18 months. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
