Re:The past, present and future of image formats
by dangravell on Thursday August 19, 2021 @06:51AM
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That's not necessarily the reason people choose FLAC. Some people, myself included, simply feel it's "wrong" to throw data away. Remember you might need that data later for re-encoding or otherwise changing the audio.
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Re:The past, present and future of image formats
by dusted on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:47AM
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I partially agree, I think everyone in principle feels it's wrong to throw data away, if there are absolutely no compromises to be had.
"Hey, there are these two copies of a song, one was digitally filtered and does not contain all the detail, maybe you can't hear the difference, they're same price/speed/storage which one do you take?" Everyone takes the lossless.
Start introducing different cost (in download speed, storage space, whatever) and peoples choices start diverging.
But as the cost fall and become more identical between lossy and lossless, people will be more partial to lossless on principle alone.
Give it 10-20 years, there will be head-fi streaming services offering lossless movie streaming.