>is there even a point to not using flac on a desktop or laptop?
Flac and audio
Logan Johnson
Mason Brooks
>>is there even a point to not using flac on a desktop or laptop?
Yes, if the source material was compressed lossy.
Some music services don't give you any way of downloading lossless.
Jaxson Mitchell
at this point why not go all out and go with .wav?
Xavier Martinez
take piracy as an option then
Austin Foster
the point is to have it on a disk or a dvd
Jose Mitchell
Been tempted to do this desu
Gavin Brooks
Wasted space. Why have the bigger file when they are the same thing.
Sebastian Allen
Purity
Christian Morgan
using wav is pointless, flac isn't lossy, it's just compressed. a wav would sound the same & take up more storage-space. the CPU-time required to decompress flac isn't exactly high though I do have a benji music player which actually can't play flac files made with ffmpeg using compression levels above 10. non-issue for desktops and laptops
generally I'd say using anything but flac for audio these days is only worth consideration if storage space is limited, there's chromebooks and things like that with just 32 GB storage.
Evan Walker
Both are lossless. The difference being .flac is compressed and .wav is uncompressed.