Can anyone tell me what the fascination is with "downloading files"?
I guess owning music? Is better than streaming music? I find that by exploring hundreds of artists on the fly and listening is very enjoyable.
I don't see any benefit to building my own library of music, when I have a much bigger, growing library of music at my fingertips ready to be streamed???
FLAC, that's why. If I could stream native WAV files, then I would be willing to pay for such a service and use it every day. The other reason is the player software that allows for streaming does not deliver the sound quality as what I'm using, Kinsky. For me it is all about achieving the maximum sound quality possible. This is when the music really moves you.
I know, those with lesser systems will attack now claiming that FLAC is the same as WAV. It is, but only statically. On-the-fly playback software somehow corrupts this, all of them. I have yet to find one that does not. I can plainly hear the difference.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio