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First off, sorry for the very late approval of the message below. Apparently one of Yahoo’s mail servers got on a spam blacklist and I didn’t receive the pending message notification. My reply to the message follows.
On Sep 16, 2018, at 6:24 AM, latoak34-/[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2018, at 11:44 AM, 'Mark P. Fishman' mfishman@... <mailto:mfishman@...> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> If any of your devices has trouble with compressed material, why not just either play the original media or store the extracted audio as WAV? FLAC at 0 doesn't save much space, so there's really very little point to using it at all.
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> The only reason of using FLAC nowadays is file metadata, Storage is not an object like it use to be at least for audio, In the other hand using wav and folder structure is not the best way for everyone especially if you have a large collection of music files, So to stay lossless and have metadata support FLAC is the way to go, its free and widely supported by almost every software and hardware maker.
> Whether the compression has any purpose or not nowadays? I don't think it does, For me it has little to no effect on the storage capacity available to me, Like you said just see what works best for your device.
If we were talking about desktop computers, I’d agree about the need for compression (I’m writing this on a desktop system with 13TB of storage). But there are plenty of people with non-expandable mobile devices that have very limited storage. A typical WAV file is about 1/3 bigger than the resultant FLAC 0 version. FLAC 0 could be a worthwhile savings if you value both quantity and quality of music you can carry with you.
I agree with the comment on using what works for your device. If you’ve got an iPhone or iPad, then Apple lossless (ALAC) is generally a better choice than FLAC. Other devices natively play only FLAC. Others play both. Both ALAC and FLAC are lossless, open source, and support extensive metadata. Converting between them is easy and fast, so use what works best for you, knowing you can change at any time in the future.
Regards,
Fred Maxwell
Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup
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