Flac vs mp3

[RPF]

..... You use it to keep perfect copies of CDs so that you don't need to disturb your physical media. From FLAC you can transcode to any of the lossy codecs and maintain the maximum amount of quality. You cannot transcode from lossy to lossy without a significant degradation in the file. Should some advanced lossy codec emerge in the future, you can still use those FLAC archives to convert to that, instead of being stuck with a lossy library technically inferior to the new codec. Take iterations of LAME: archive all your files in one generation of the codec and you're stuck with it.

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Very good point Orfik. That's exactly why I want to "upgrade" my library.

[HINT]

mp3

[Robert24]

mp3

[VinX]

for me i mostly use mp3 320 kbps .. have some flac also

[ice76]

flac or ape for me

[scarface]

I only use mp3

[Popov]

only FLAC

[Wearwolf]

I use only .mp3 (for now )

[BlackBird_]

The FLAC vs MP3 conversation is an ignorant one. Even if you don't believe that FLAC sounds better (which it does, and I'd bet a large sum of money the people who think it doesn't don't have the components to make that claim), it's an archival codec before anything else. You use it to keep perfect copies of CDs so that you don't need to disturb your physical media. From FLAC you can transcode to any of the lossy codecs and maintain the maximum amount of quality. You cannot transcode from lossy to lossy without a significant degradation in the file. Should some advanced lossy codec emerge in the future, you can still use those FLAC archives to convert to that, instead of being stuck with a lossy library technically inferior to the new codec. Take iterations of LAME: archive all your files in one generation of the codec and you're stuck with it.

It summarizes the whole matter.
Besides, you can convert FLAC to any other format (V0, V2, CBR etc) w/o quality loss. If you have FLAC, you have all.

[Skiz]

Besides, you can convert FLAC to any other format (V0, V2, CBR etc) w/o quality loss. If you have FLAC, you have all.

No you can't.