[peel] Lossy and Lossless Audio compression

[markbursa@...]

>>Maybe FLAC is superior but so was OGG and it (OGG) seems to be  
falling by the wayside a la betamax!<<


A perfect analogy. 
 
Ogg is preferable to MP3, but incompatible with a lot  of players etc, and 
will surely wither away.


>>Anybody have any convincing arguments for one or the  other?<<
 
 
 
Flac is not an audio format like MP3 or OGG. It's more  like ZIP or RAR - a 
way of temporarily compressing files so they're easier to  send. Once you 
un-Flac them they turn back into WAV files - which is the best  you can get. 



So please use Flac ahead of Ogg , MP3 or any other  compressed format, which 
permanently remove information from the files, so  degrading the quality.
 
The alternative to Flac is Shn, which is similar but  less widely used and 
not as effective in reducing file  size.
 
Cheers
 
Mark