Re: WMA vs FLAC

Green Xenon [Radium] wrote:
> geoff wrote:
>> WindsorFox<SS> wrote:
>>>    Any thoughts on the best file for archiving music???
>>
>> Isn't FLAC lossless ? And WMA isn't ?
>>
>> I guess it depends on how much space you want to save. Why not just
>> LPCM WAVs
>>
>> geoff
>>
>>
>
>
> As Geoff says use linear PCM Wave files with a sample-rate of at least
> 44.1 kHz and a bit-resolution of at least 16-bit.
>
> If you must compress, use WMA but do so with the following wisdom:
>
> Beware all digital audio compression formats other than WMA, stink
> badly!!

Bollocks.  WMA is just as crappy as other lossy formats.

>
> Here are my rules for digital audio:

Here's mine. Buy a bigger media for little $$$ and save LPCM in the
original 
bit-depth/SR . If archiving large amounts of data (such as multitrack)
maybe 
a lossless compression format such as Sony PCA, FLAC, or Monkeys
(whichever 
you feel confident is going to be sup****ted longer) would be useful.


geoff