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I dislike people who write entire articles about stuff they know too little about.
I was reading an audio/music-related website, and clicked on their link handling lossless formats. One of the headings says:
"Why you should never, ever convert from lossy to lossless formats"
Then, an A4 of reasons why you shouldn't follows, stating two obvious points:
- The FLAC/lossless file will be much bigger than the lossy/mp3 (around 5x the size).
- The quality will not improve; it will be exactly the same as the lossy file.
So, the advice is to "never, ever" do that conversion, because of the extra drive space it takes.
However, they forget one very important point.
When using MP3 or other lossless formats, and you have to convert to something else in another 20 years, you will still end up with a lossless format anyway, otherwise you'd be losing quality because of going from lossless to lossless. So, if you convert any lossless files to FLAC, you'll be 20 years ahead of your time, and you can switch to any lossless format you care to.
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