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Originally Posted by sobriquet

.Flac will probably replace Mp3 in the next few years as it obtains better compression ratios.It stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Mp3 is fine and all, but in order to achieve its desired file size, it compromises with quality. FLAC does not do this. The only reason not to use it right now, is that not all portable music players support it. The Ipod/Iphone being the only popular players that I can think of, that should, but don't ( last time I checked anyway ).

that or more likely the continuing cheapening of both storage & bandwidth, which will make file size irrelevant, just like one doesn't think of the file size of word documents these days.