RE: MP3 Backup

["Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>]

> Why, in this day and age when hard drive space is so relatively
cheap,
> wouldn't you want to use a lossless compression algorithm like FLAK
or
> SHIN
> instead of a loss one like MP3?

Because some of us have *HUGE* collections, to store lossless would
require in the order of 2-3TB, yes I did say Terabits! ;) Only a rough
guess mind, could be a lot more.

The other reason is that I transfer music to the car, onto an M-Station
which only has 10Gb in it and that is another bottleneck for lossless
compression, portability.

> I guess I still don't like the idea of a computer program deciding
what I
> can and cannot hear... I want it all!

Granted, and for that reason I have a decent CD player to really listen
to music if I want, in the car or as background stuff it doesn't really
matter IMHO.

K.




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