darrell;685911 Wrote: > Agreed, it is vanishingly unlikely. But to guard against even the > slightest chance of forced obsolescence due the the whim of software > companies, store your music in an open source format (e.g. flac) on an > open source file system (e.g. Ext3/4). Similar advice apples to the > storage of any type of data.
Even that is an unnecessary level of paranoia in my book. There are an endless number of transcoders out there and they aren't going to disappear. Not too long ago I had to open a Lotus AmiPro word processing file from 20 years ago. That's a program I haven't used since the early 90s but had no big problem opening it and converting it to MS Word. While I happen to be fond of open-source solutions (I'm a Linux user from way back and most of my music collection is in FLAC), I've not lost any sleep worrying about that portion of my collection that's stored in some other file format. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93111 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
