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Re:Free Music Archive by norealidea on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:10PM (#17158011)
You just said Flac is for lossless backup. Losslessback is not equal to the user experience.

Kind of selfish of you to think Flac should be a standard where some people wouldn't even know what it is.

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Re:Free Music Archive by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:26PM (#17158143)
People don't know what HTTP is.
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Re:Free Music Archive by shmerl on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:33PM (#17158197)
What user experience? Any music archive or store can provide two functions: download for backup purposes (lossless codec is good for it), and on-line playback (for which lossy codec makes sense). Both can be called user experience and both have value.

People don't need to know what it is by default. But they should be able to make lossless backup if they need to.

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