Fifer Wrote: 
> Bear in mind that this processing power matters more at playing time
> (which you do often) than ripping/coding time (which you do once).
... which is why FLAC was designed to be expensive (processor-wise)
when compressing data, but cheap when decompressing. The designers
(rightly) assumed that compression is generally performed by a more
powerful machine than the one doing the decompression.


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