Okay, so I've seen some discussion / mu / lately about FLAC and I'm here to provide some information.

Hearing the difference now is not the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is a "loss." What this means is that for each year MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose about 12kbps, if you have SATA — it is about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You do not want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded then, even then, that I grabbed the 320, they just sound like dermo.Bas scary average ... Well, do not get me started. Some of these albums have degraded to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they were not stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but a year or two, you'll be glad you did.

So there you have it.

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