Re: [tlug] [C&C] AAC is lossy, FLAC is lossless

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On Monday 23 July 2007 17:52, Josh Glover wrote:
>What lossless codec would people recommend for audio?

If you are talking about lossless, use whatever is easiest to support on 
the platforms that matter to you. The file size varies only slightly 
between lossless formats, so ease of working with the files is probably 
the most important.

A couple years ago i ripped my entire CD collection to flac files. I 
chose that format because of its losslessness and because it is an open 
format with open source tools for reading / writing it. I have not yet 
been dissappointed by the decision, and if for some reason i decide to 
switch to something else, it will be a simple matter to write a script 
to transcode my collection while preserving all the tags. So far it has 
been easy to play the files on my Linux machines as well as OS X and 
even Windows. If i want to copy an album to my iPod i have a script to 
transcode an album to MP3, but i mostly use the iPod for listening to 
Japanese language lessons so even that hasn't been much of an issue.

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