thomsens;175518 Wrote: > I still use MP3 vs FLAC because of what I call "portability." I want > the most flexibility to play and catalog my music on whatever device or > software that comes along over time. With tagged MP3, it will be a long > time before my collection becomes obsolete.
No idea why you'd think mp3 is more portable than FLAC when FLAC is a permanent, lossless copy of a track that is perfectly playable on a PC, Squeezebox and a raft of other devices - have a look at the FLAC website. Granted you cannot (yet) play FLAC on most portable music devices eg iPod, however, replicating your FLAC library to a MP3 library is a no-brainer requiring little to nothing in terms of effort. Have a look at Robin Bowes' excellent flac2mp3 - http://robinbowes.com/filemgmt/index.php?id=11. Furthermore, most decent audio cataloging and tagging applications have FLAC support built-in. The only thing you're achieving by insisting on mp3 as your source of choice is a reduction in audio quality at source, with the end result being that should you one-day decide you would like CD quality, you will need to rerip and encode your library to a lossless format. Also, given FLAC is open source and supported at a hardware level across a range of devices, I don't think it will be disappearing anytime soon. Irrespective, the fact remains that it will always be a no-brainer to decode back to PCM and then go wherever you want to from there. Whilst CD format may eventually become redundant/superseded, FLAC by its very nature is adaptable to wherever the future of digital audio might lie. -- egd Linux and loving IT! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32138 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
