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I love FLAC, I just wish it had more mainstream support: I'm looking at you iTunes Player & 160GB iPod Classic.

• mikeash 13y ago
  At least you can re-encode to ALAC without loss of quality, just loss of time and perhaps sanity.
• unsignedint 13y ago
  Agreed... It was an interesting discovery that Google Music allows you to upload FLAC, though. While I'm pretty sure actual playback is something lossy, at least it prevents them transcoding lossy format into another lossy format for streaming... (or so I heard...)
  • dcg 13y ago
    The Google Music Manager program just transcodes FLAC to 320kbps MP3 before uploading. https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462?hl=en
    • unsignedint 13y ago
      Oh, didn't see that. Thanks for clarification!
    • unsignedint 13y ago
      The one thing I know, though, they require FLAC upload for their commercial music distribution service. It's actually better than some place, which actually requires a physical CDDA ROM...