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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by corysama on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:40AM (#30442963)
> Someday when I look at 1TB the way I look at 100GB today, this won't be a concern anymore.

And, there it is. Thank you.

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Re:FLAC 1.3.4 by kstenerud on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:27PM (#30449858)
You missed the other points. This one point is the weakest of them all. FLAC is simply better supported for the things people care about.

JPEG2000, for example, never caught on because nobody cares enough about the storage savings, and there were no other compelling features that anyone cared about. But for audio, we want our metadata. Had WAV been built with strong metadata support, FLAC wouldn't have gotten very far. But that ship has sailed.

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