Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 1) 550
Because FLAC is very poorly supported among both portable media devices and media center devices? Further, the difference in actual perceptible quality between a high quality mp3/ogg/wma/whatever encoding and a FLAC encoding is between negligible and non-existent, negating pretty much any benefit of FLAC. Media archival is one area where FLAC is an obvious choice for, but bit-for-bit storage is generally something only a subset of music enthusiasts care about, and so unless constantly transcoding FLAC into a format that your chosen non-PC device supports is your idea of a good time, then it's just not worth the effort...
I agree. No one talks about the sound quality anymore (eg importance of the quality of the loudspeakers, new models of the amplifiers... even headphones are out of the focus), but only about informatical aspects: bandwith, gigabytes,... It's assumed that sound quality is good enough.
