Originally Posted by
Polarbear
i burn them to cd, because my hifi system (cd-player) beats any computer. my only concern is, that nobody can exactly tell how long data on a cd will last.
Longer than the average lifetime of a hdd in any case, so burning on discs can be a valuable data storage procedure.
You're right about another thing too: many computers lack the hardware quality to play lossless music back in a quality that is deserving for the format, take all those onboard music chips for example. Given the appropriate hardware, a computer based hifi system can be much more comfortable to use though and that's the large drawback of burning CD's and being limited to one album at a time. (And in the end it isn't all that expensive because it can be a multi-purpose system)
edit: VLC does what every media player capable of the FLAC format does: decoding it. It would be a pretty useless piece of software if it couldn't play audio back in the input format
But I agree with krunktastic that other players are better suited for audio playback, not because of questionable quality but because they're better suited to handling playlists like the mentioned foobar2k.
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