On 04/07/2014 07:49 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , dave
wrote:

Why does Android tell me they can't play .flac or .wav when they
actually can? In fact they tell you to transcode down before loading.
WTF? Almost all my files are from CDs and are lossless. Memory is cheap,
hearing is not. I do not store RAW photos. There are limits to my
self-indulgence.

hearing is definitely not lossless and grows worse as people age.

people can't hear a difference between a lossless audio file and a
properly done mp3/aac, especially at 256kbps or 320kbps.

they might think they can, but in a double-blind test, people have
consistently *not* been able to tell the difference. countless such
tests have been done, with many, many people.

there certainly isn't an audible difference on headphones or with the
built-in speakers of a device.


I would not put headphones in the same category as built-in speakers.
Perhaps the average schmuck in a test can't tell, maybe I can't tell,
but in 10 years I will still have clean copies of my music, and my
hearing, which is fine. If you do MP3 at 256k or 320k why not just
record the PCM as a .wav? What is the advantage of using MPEG
compression? H264 aac? Or Apple aac?