w3wilkes wrote: > 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? In my opinion it is not ripping to FLAC per se that is "futureproofing", but rather ripping to _any_ lossless format. That way you have preserved the full fidelity of the original file/disc, and if your favorite codec (FLAC, MP3, whatever) becomes obsolete, you can always transcode to a new codec. You're right that there is no loss in fidelity when making copies of MP3, but if MP3 ever goes bye-bye (as one day it must, though not necessarily in our lifetimes), then you have to live with either further degradation in sound quality (which you may or may not notice) by transcoding from MP3 to something else or dragging out the discs again to re-rip (ugh!).
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