On 17/01/17 15:38, Tim Watts wrote:


Personally - I buy CDs and rip (carefully with software that retries
errors rather than skips), then encode lossless, plus a second max
bitrate MP3 for and devices that cannot handle lossless.

Same he FLAC for the Volumio Raspberry Pi and my Sandisk player, MP3
for the car.

Where we should be right now is being able to buy digital lossless media
at better than 44kHz sampling...

This article

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

is an interesting read on that.