Re:FLAC 1.3.4
by bayindirh on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:37AM
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> Even if you were a bit hyperbolic.
It was an intentional dramatization to showcase some slippery slope, tbh. Genuinely sorry if that sounded too harsh, or rude. That wasn't the intention.
> I’d rather have something that’s trivial for any software to work with everywhere forever. I know FLAC feels like forever. But, so did a lot of dead formats I used to work with.
I understand the fear and pain of obsolescence in the world of file formats. VQF is the first notable example in my mind, but we need to keep in mind that FLAC is proper FOSS, and it'll live on in one way or another. People still keep Commodore64 kernals, emulators alive. Similarly MiniDisc has a cult following. On the worst case, I can install an old distro to a VM, and convert my music via that VM to something more modern.
I personally don't think FLAC as an "Archival Format". It's more of a bona fide storage format for me. I'm a serious music listener, and I tag my archives ambitiously, and besides being lossless and provides space advantages, it supports proper tagging via ID3 tools and allows me to store a truckload of metadata with my music.
To prevent corruption in my archives, I'd rather store recovery data and take regular backups. There's no other way in my book to keep data safe.
It was an intentional dramatization to showcase some slippery slope, tbh. Genuinely sorry if that sounded too harsh, or rude. That wasn't the intention.
> I’d rather have something that’s trivial for any software to work with everywhere forever. I know FLAC feels like forever. But, so did a lot of dead formats I used to work with.
I understand the fear and pain of obsolescence in the world of file formats. VQF is the first notable example in my mind, but we need to keep in mind that FLAC is proper FOSS, and it'll live on in one way or another. People still keep Commodore64 kernals, emulators alive. Similarly MiniDisc has a cult following. On the worst case, I can install an old distro to a VM, and convert my music via that VM to something more modern.
I personally don't think FLAC as an "Archival Format". It's more of a bona fide storage format for me. I'm a serious music listener, and I tag my archives ambitiously, and besides being lossless and provides space advantages, it supports proper tagging via ID3 tools and allows me to store a truckload of metadata with my music.
To prevent corruption in my archives, I'd rather store recovery data and take regular backups. There's no other way in my book to keep data safe.