Re:FLAC – Format overview
by TacticalCoder on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:36PM
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> Personally I use FLAC for archiving purposes, to preserve a copy of my physical CDs.
Same, but at home I also play directly the FLAC files (laptop / DAC / amp / floorstanding loudspeakers). They're not that much bigger than 320 kbps mp3 files.
I convert to lossy for my car, which takes mp3 files but not FLAC.
I used to collect mp3s back in the Napster days. My HDD was maybe 40 GB back then (?), maybe not even that. Nowadays FLAC files size aren't a concern. I think a screenshot of my screen takes more room than a song FLAC encoded.
Re:FLAC – Format overview
by jbarberu on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:23AM
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Now I'm curious about how you manage to get such large screenshots. I just tried and with a total resolution of 5120x1200 (over 3 monitors) I get a 35x difference between a random song in FLAC (28Mb vs 729Kb)
Same, but at home I also play directly the FLAC files (laptop / DAC / amp / floorstanding loudspeakers). They're not that much bigger than 320 kbps mp3 files.
I convert to lossy for my car, which takes mp3 files but not FLAC.
I used to collect mp3s back in the Napster days. My HDD was maybe 40 GB back then (?), maybe not even that. Nowadays FLAC files size aren't a concern. I think a screenshot of my screen takes more room than a song FLAC encoded.