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I imagine now a music store can sell FLAC-only music tracks, and provide FLAC-only stream previews. No need to re-encode anything.
by rakoo 10y ago
I imagine now a music store can sell FLAC-only music tracks, and provide FLAC-only stream previews. No need to re-encode anything.
- shmerl 10y agoThat makes some sense, yes. But so far I didn't see any stores which sell only FLACs.
- rakoo 10y agoThat's a chicken and egg problem; if the store only provides FLAC, the browser can't play it, so the potential customers can't try it, so they don't buy it, so the store has to provide non-FLAC alternatives, so there is no need to provide FLAC decoding in the browser, etc... Somebody has to make the first step, and I'm happy Firefox did this. Bandcamp is one of the few stores that does sell FLAC, maybe they'll be the one going that direction.
- pimeys 10y agoHardwax[1] is selling aiff, which can be packed into flac. No metadata though, which is kind of a bummer. Beatport[2] offers wav and aiff as well. [1] https://hardwax.com/ https://hardwax.com/ [2] https://www.beatport.com/ https://www.beatport.com/
- rakoo 10y agoAnother possibility: online libraries, such as archive.org, could store FLAC only to save space and still provide in-browser streaming.