As a consumer you might really not bother, that's your choice of course.
As a developer I'm working with large amounts of data totalling some dozens of TB compressed. I don't have the option of lossy-compressing it since bit-by-bit reproduction is part of the constraints. I don't want to store it uncompressed since that also increases I/O times. CPU is simply not the bottleneck anywhere along this line. And flac works great. :)
As a developer I'm working with large amounts of data totalling some dozens of TB compressed. I don't have the option of lossy-compressing it since bit-by-bit reproduction is part of the constraints. I don't want to store it uncompressed since that also increases I/O times. CPU is simply not the bottleneck anywhere along this line. And flac works great. :)