drmatt wrote: 
> So I see, a pity the commercial world doesn't like open source. 
> 

Open source = no royalty payments.

> 
> I believe FLAC achieves better compression, no?
> 

Reference?

> 
> I understand blu ray, at least, does also support up to at least six
> 24/96k pcm audio streams (which would be about 13Mbit). I make that
> about 4 hours of six channel high res audio per single sided blu ray, or
> obviously 12 hours of two channel.. bring it on! No more pointless
> multidisc sets.. (and obviously ridiculously long runtimes for 16/44.1
> etc..)
> 

Who cares since we know that so-called high resolution audio has no
audible benefits?

> 
> I'm old fashioned, I like to buy a piece of media rather than a
> too-easily accidentally deleted download but am slowly realising the
> fact that I never actually play anything directly from media anyway..

I can't say that I'm against physical media, not with a personal library
in excess of 1,000 discs.


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