Just a month ago Greenbaum wrote an article and tweeted about hoaxes in the media. What motivates people to do them, etc.
Now, it sounds like all the details come straight from Greenbaum.
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as a consumer, the market share of players makes no difference. what matters is choice. how many portables do you have to choose from if you want alac? ipod. how many players if you want flac? dozens, probably hundreds now.
anyway lossless makes the least sense in portables. lossless makes the most sense in distribution because encoding to some other format incurs no generation loss.
your advantages/disadvantages just don't match with the reality.
Nonetheless, I just rip all my music as
there are a couple of benefits (besides the free space): 1) flac is easier to tag in a way that is seen by all players; 2) if your wavs get corrupt, you might not know until you listen to them (maybe getting full-scale noise screaming out of your speakers), and the damage (rarely) could mess up the remainder of the file. with flac, each frame has a checksum and you can verify the whole thing. any errors damage only the frame, and can be detected and muted.
The biggest problem against FLAC is simple: relatively few portable media players support FLAC "out of the box." In fact, you almost would be better off with selling Apple Lossless encoded music, since just about every iPod classic, nano and touch model since 2004 and all iPhone models support Apple Lossless natively.
a lot more portables (by choice, not market share) support flac (dozens) than apple lossless (ipod)[1]. and pretty much everyone selling lossless is selling flac. as far as I know, nobody is selling apple lossless and the one outfit selling wma lossless (musicgiants) went bankrupt.
[1] http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html (stale and missing a lot of new players and stores from this year)
Most media devices with music playback abilities do not have the function to play ogg (or flac for that matter).
nope, there are dozens of devices, including portables, that play vorbis, and dozens that play flac. flac is particularly cheap to decode. a partial list:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers
And don't point out that some people aren't smart enough to understand, either, because it's the people who are smart enough to "know better" that are the problem. The "left side of the bell curve" is more likely to do what they're told because they understand that they don't know better.
that is absolutely backward.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." -- GWB
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
