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For years I've stored my music collections as FLAC - however with massive size HDD's is it worth it any more -- - WAV can easily be stored -- mind you all my players even on the mobile phone handle FLAC so should I just keep using it.
Note I'm not interested in compressed formats like Mp3 - only LOSSLESS. As both (WAV and FLAC) are free OPEN codecs I can't see them disappearing any time soon. I'm not going to be suckered into using proprietary stuff like WMV either though.
32 / 64 GB micro SD cards on phone ensures I can store More than enough music on the device and these days fast access to remote computer via internet means I can always download other music to the device if I need it at any time.
The only slight disadvantage with FLAC on the phone is that the battery usage is slightly higher due to the hardware having to convert the FLAC to analog (takes a wee bit more processing power than using WAV - the hardware in the phone is actually the DAC - Digital to Analog converter).
Even on a phone I am using a high quality pair of Bose headphones so typically compressed mp3 files don't interest me --however that type of file is fine for those Bud type earphones though.
Just interested in what other people are using for High Quality Audio.
(BTW I've done enough tests on High quality STUDIO grade equipment to show that a FLAC file can be restored 100% to the original WAV file so the FLAC lossless compression really is LOSSLESS even though it's compressed).
Cheers
jimbo
For years I've stored my music collections as FLAC - however with massive size HDD's is it worth it any more -- - WAV can easily be stored -- mind you all my players even on the mobile phone handle FLAC so should I just keep using it.
Note I'm not interested in compressed formats like Mp3 - only LOSSLESS. As both (WAV and FLAC) are free OPEN codecs I can't see them disappearing any time soon. I'm not going to be suckered into using proprietary stuff like WMV either though.
32 / 64 GB micro SD cards on phone ensures I can store More than enough music on the device and these days fast access to remote computer via internet means I can always download other music to the device if I need it at any time.
The only slight disadvantage with FLAC on the phone is that the battery usage is slightly higher due to the hardware having to convert the FLAC to analog (takes a wee bit more processing power than using WAV - the hardware in the phone is actually the DAC - Digital to Analog converter).
Even on a phone I am using a high quality pair of Bose headphones so typically compressed mp3 files don't interest me --however that type of file is fine for those Bud type earphones though.
Just interested in what other people are using for High Quality Audio.
(BTW I've done enough tests on High quality STUDIO grade equipment to show that a FLAC file can be restored 100% to the original WAV file so the FLAC lossless compression really is LOSSLESS even though it's compressed).
Cheers
jimbo
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