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The only argument I’ve heard that makes me go “OK, fine!” in favor of FLAC is that they forced a standardization of metadata. FLAC is well-supported. But, PCM
by corysama 4y ago
The only argument I’ve heard that makes me go “OK, fine!” in favor of FLAC is that they forced a standardization of metadata.
FLAC is well-supported. But, PCM RIFF WAV files are triv-i-al. Any CS101 student can write a parser. They don’t need decoding.
2:1 lossless compression is nice. It’s quite a technical feat.
Meanwhile, as an old software engineer, I focus pretty hard on technical simplicity. And, the complexity ratio of PCM vs. pretty much else everything is a a very, very small number. Very small :p
- kosherhurricane 4y agoIf enough time or technology has passed that someone has to write a wav parser, how do you expect them to mount your file system, assuming it has survived?