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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by unsignedint on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @07:38PM (#5865468)
Agreed... It was an interesting discovery that Google Music allows you to upload FLAC, though. While I'm pretty sure actual playback is something lossy, at least it prevents them transcoding lossy format into another lossy format for streaming... (or so I heard...)
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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by dcg on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @08:18PM (#5865645)
The Google Music Manager program just transcodes FLAC to 320kbps MP3 before uploading.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462?hl=en

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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by unsignedint on Sunday June 16, 2013 @03:25AM (#5887768)
The one thing I know, though, they require FLAC upload for their commercial music distribution service.

It's actually better than some place, which actually requires a physical CDDA ROM...

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Re:FLAC 1.3.0 Released by unsignedint on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:16PM (#5870027)
Oh, didn't see that. Thanks for clarification!
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