The only other thing to consider on the switch to FLAC from MP3 is the additional disk space requirements (granted disk id cheap nowadays). As a comparison the highest VBR quality/bitrate MP3 of the "Taylor Swift - Red" album is 120MB MP3 and if you go with the highest FLAC compression it is 430MB. I'd say you should multiply your space requirements by at least 3x.
One thing I'm curious about when talking about FLAC being the future proof format as opposed to MP3. I have yet to find a digital music playing platform that doesn't support MP3, however I find many platforms that do not support FLAC. Is there a shift occurring to move to FLAC on all platforms? And on copying MP3 and its loss in fidelity. Once I've ripped my original CD to VBR highest quality/bitrate MP3 my copying would be strictly a file copy. I should be able to copy A to B, B to C, C to D and so on until I got to Y to Z. Even with Z being 26 generations away from A the sound quality of Z will be identical to A since the file itself is identical to A. I would not create copies transcoding, they would simply be file copies. The only time I would ever see a need to transcode would be if I needed to create a audio CD to play in some ancient CD player that didn't support MP3. Since I keep my original CD's I think I'd just copy that instead. Even if I did create a audio CD from MP3's I'd guess that the sound quality would still be exponentially better than in the days when I used the first play of a purchased piece of vinyl (or even CD) to create a audio cassette using a Nakamichi Dragon. 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs Rock Solid with LMS 7.7.3 and WHS 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
