...which would suggest that audo cds offer much higher quality than is practically necessary. should we bring back cassettes?
i keep flac because it is a true copy of a CD, so if i ever want to burn CDs, i get accurate copies rather than compressed music. is that strange?
think digital cameras. today's point-and-shoots don't count for much, they use jpg compression to squeeze data down to reasonable sizes. but digital SLRs can shoot in RAW - the image equivalent of FLAC. my brother is an amateur photographer, and he always shoots in RAW. for most uses, he has to compress the images to JPG to use them, but he still keeps the RAW files around to have true and original versions of the images for archival purposes.
but yeah - you go your way, i go mine
