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Re:Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download... by DavidPeiffer on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:13PM (#38410843)
Not GP, but nothing about ML engineer demands knowing nuances of audio file formats for future proofing.

I just downloaded from Bandcamp for the first time. I've heard FLAC is sort of the go-to format for good quality, but when presented with ALAC, WAV, and AIFF which all had larger filesizes, I paused and asked a friend.

Re:Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download... by 15457345234 on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:42PM (#38410989)
It just seemed to me like an odd question to ask into the public domain from someone who's in the technical sector. It's kinda basic that you'd want to take the smallest lossless file alone and perform all the other conversions either on demand or as needed. It's also - at least, to me - relatively 'polite' not to overwhelm a service which is apparently struggling by overloading the shit out of it with redundant downloads.