cavediver;325856 Wrote: > I chose wav for my archive format because I don't care about storage > space as I have a lot and can add as much more when I need it. Storage > is not expensive. And with wav files, I can convert them to any format > I want or need at the time. > > Ok, the tags thing. I've never really understood the tags issue. What > is a tag and what does it do for me? With my Squeezebox setup I have > now, I don't see any difference with the wav files or the flac files. > They both look and play the same.
A significant reason to use FLAC over wav has nothing to do with tags, but with data integrity. FLAC has a built in checksum to validate the integrity of the data within. wav has no such thing. Why would you care? Well suppose one day you find that your memory has gotten flakey and that it is affecting the integrity of the data on your disc. How will you validate all of your wav files? Unless you've archived md5s from when you ripped them, you won't be able to. With FLAC, you can run a utility to scan your entire music collection and identify any files that have become corrupted. This may sound like an unlikely scenario, but it isn't to me - I've experienced this. It was not fun, but thankfully I was able to easily and quickly ID what files had problems and rerip only them. Otherwise, my entire music library would have been suspect. Given the tagging, compression, and data integrity checks, FLAC is just a more robust format than WAV in general. -- maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50609 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
