Re:FLAC 1.3.4
by mindslight on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:58AM
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> Someday when I look at 1TB the way I look at 100GB today, this won't be a concern anymore.
I'm halfway there, 1TB collection on a 30TB array. When I repurpose a previously used drive, I've got a bad habit of making a multi-TB image in case I forgot to copy anything off, and then forgetting about it. (I'm in the middle of writing some tools to sort through those.)
Still, what would be the advantage to moving to WAV? There is zero experience-overhead to FLAC. This isn't like some proprietary crapware format that becomes hit or miss due to patents or poor licensing. It's a Free format so common players all seamlessly support it. We're talking like 300kB of binary code, in a world where stuffing 300MB CRUD apps at users is normal.
If I want to transcode to MP3 for some bespoke device, then the FLAC compression makes that process quicker via saved IO bandwidth. There's literally no end-user complexity that I would save by moving to WAV. And if I wanted to develop software to read an audio file, then I'd import the FLAC library just as how one would generally import a WAV library. OP might as well advocate for storing audio as textual numbers line by line, so it could be easily processed with awk.
I'm halfway there, 1TB collection on a 30TB array. When I repurpose a previously used drive, I've got a bad habit of making a multi-TB image in case I forgot to copy anything off, and then forgetting about it. (I'm in the middle of writing some tools to sort through those.)
Still, what would be the advantage to moving to WAV? There is zero experience-overhead to FLAC. This isn't like some proprietary crapware format that becomes hit or miss due to patents or poor licensing. It's a Free format so common players all seamlessly support it. We're talking like 300kB of binary code, in a world where stuffing 300MB CRUD apps at users is normal.
If I want to transcode to MP3 for some bespoke device, then the FLAC compression makes that process quicker via saved IO bandwidth. There's literally no end-user complexity that I would save by moving to WAV. And if I wanted to develop software to read an audio file, then I'd import the FLAC library just as how one would generally import a WAV library. OP might as well advocate for storing audio as textual numbers line by line, so it could be easily processed with awk.