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What format to use

5000 topics over different aspect of all possible losless formats
so i have just a simple question: which one should i use? hehe
all i need is basically winamp suport but small filesize and intelligent tagging wouldbe usefull of curse.

hope nobody feels anoyed becaus i guess this has been asked quite often

What format to use

Reply #1 –
I guess you'd like to use Monkey's Audio, it has everything you're looking for, besides there's Flac wich could do the work too, the problem is that it has poor compression ratio but it's faster decoding.
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What format to use

Reply #3 –
FLAC has poor compression ratio? I think the difference is rather tiny  I used to use Monkey's Audio but now switched to FLAC because it has error detection/recovery + is supported in more platforms.
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What format to use

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FLAC has poor compression ratio? I think the difference is rather tiny  I used to use Monkey's Audio but now switched to FLAC because it has error detection/recovery + is supported in more platforms.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't mention it has poor compression ratio compared to another "more efficient" lossless codec, like LA or OptimFrog... 
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What format to use

Reply #5 –
This chart (one of my faves) shows LA/Optimfrog beating FLAC -8 by about 5%, which to me, is hardly 'poor'.  Depending on the system playing it back, FLAC's extremely low processor utilization during uncompression can also be a huge 'selling' point. 

If you're archiving lossless audio, you should be prepared for huge storage requirements anyway.
 

What format to use

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This chart (one of my faves) shows LA/Optimfrog beating FLAC -8 by about 5%, which to me, is hardly 'poor'.  Depending on the system playing it back, FLAC's extremely low processor utilization during uncompression can also be a huge 'selling' point. 

If you're archiving lossless audio, you should be prepared for huge storage requirements anyway.

I couldn't agree more  . You got to have in mind where you're going to use your files too.
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