MP3 put out to pasture

Of course. I’m not some audiophile nut who thinks MP3 is a terrible stain on the world, I just weighed up the benefits of converting CDs to FLAC versus MP3 and, when disk space was removed, FLAC won in every other way. I’m the first to admit the audible benefits are so close to zero as to be meaningless to 99.9% of all listeners, and they don’t bother me at all except when you start reaching below 192 kbps.

I still do recommend that if one is ripping CDs to choose FLAC as it’s literally no difference in effort and you can convert to any format from your FLAC files with one click and no generation loss, which has pretty audible effects to most ears.

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