Audio codecs: MP3 vs Ogg Vorbis vs FLAC Good audio really needs to be lossless, and with MP3 being "lossy" and proprietary it is not the best option (hopefully you still options in this world). FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favourite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices at http://ift.tt/2kM1Jay) just like you would an MP3 file. While most desktop OSs support FLAC very well, as does Android and Windows Mobile, it is not the same for iOS. Now why would iOS not support it very well? Why would Apple want to make that difficult for their users? Could it be they don't want open choices for their users and would rather push them towards iTuines without FLAC support? We as users have the choice, so make it wisely and also whilst thinking of your future choices. It does so happen though that there is a FLAC player for iOS at http://ift.tt/2lvU8Bd as long as Apple does not boot it out of their store like they did with VLC. Read more about these audio codecs at http://ift.tt/2kMaaTr and there is also some interesting advice on smaplig rates as well.
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