Thread: FLAC Support Coming to Chrome and Firefox this Month.
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Old 01-18-2017, 04:42 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib View Post

They offer incredible-sounding high-resolution audio.
High resolution audio only wastes space

They can know. Xiph.org is the current maintainer of the FLAC encoder/decoder. The only reason why you want high-res audio is when you do editing and archiving. For listening, 16 bit resolution is enough, because the background noise ("tape hiss") is close to 0 already.
Last edited by pdurrant; 01-19-2017 at 03:08 AM. Reason: fixed quote tag
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