Agreed that up-coding is bad. Still think preserving lossless, if it is available in the first place, is worth it, and a couple hundred megabytes probably don’t

Agreed that up-coding is bad. Still think preserving lossless, if it is available in the first place, is worth it, and a couple hundred megabytes probably don’t matter to someone who chose a quality download rather than streaming. The point that “the entirety of one’s experience is fully available to one’s conscious mind, so if one can’t tell the difference then it doesn’t matter” can be a philosophical question on which we’ll disagree.