Pat Farrell said the following on 26/11/2005 23:30: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:18 -0800, Cleve wrote: > >> I don't know why anyone would mess with FLAC or other >>lossless compressions unless they're just plain into codecs. > > > It isn't to save disk space, which as you say, is nearly free. > Flac and other formats include very important things like > error detection and tags so you can know the artist/ > album/song. > > And since FLAC is free and supported by all squeezeboxes, > the only downside is a small amount of time once after > ripping to compress and tag.
And not even that if you have EAC set up right to rip, convert, *and* tag in one operation. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong? _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
