Highbitrate mp3 will still sound pretty good on your average low-end hifi, so unless you have a good to high-end system, you may not need to use FLAC for "audiophile" reasons.
However, FLAC is a) lossless and b) opensource. Whether that makes it a sensible choice for anyone who doesn't want to create a bunch of lossy files and then have to rerip them all when the next musical innovation comes out or b) just for "cool kids" is a matter of personal choice. You can't use FLAC on most portable music players (and things like WMP need plugins), but as it's lossless, it's easy to convert them to a seperate library (see the great script that someone here wrote called "flac to mp3"). There's an increasing number of rippers that will rip to FLAC in one interface - EAC, DBPowerAmp and Audiograbber for three (check out the wiki) HTH -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
