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crazyray · June 11th, 2006, 09:00 PM

I've chosen to stay with MP3's as well because they can be used in my car and on my portable music players. I also use EAC but I prefer LAME VBR extreme settings. Many folks I know are using EAC and FLAC. Sound quality is supposedly identical to wav but the reduction in file size is just ~50%. Hard drive space is cheap these days.

Regardless of the codec, the smaller the file size, the larger the drop in fidelity. Whether you can hear it (or care) is up to you.

June 11th, 2006, 09:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
crazyray Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,226	I've chosen to stay with MP3's as well because they can be used in my car and on my portable music players. I also use EAC but I prefer LAME VBR extreme settings. Many folks I know are using EAC and FLAC. Sound quality is supposedly identical to wav but the reduction in file size is just ~50%. Hard drive space is cheap these days. Regardless of the codec, the smaller the file size, the larger the drop in fidelity. Whether you can hear it (or care) is up to you.