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Codecs… dry stuff. Not very sexy. And complex. Because what is good? That question is difficult to answer, because as is often the case: it depends on the situation. If, like us, you started out with FLAC, then it is logical to continue encoding in that format. If you find WAV handy… no problem: it can work just fine. If you work mainly with Apple, then AIFF and ALAC make sense.
One way coding…
What we do want to say: if you start building a collection: just choose a lossless format. Storage space is cheap these days. And if you save all your music in a lossless format now, you will not regret it later. You can always go from FLAC or ALAC to MP3 or AAC. But the other way around is not possible.
We are curious: what do you use? And why did you choose that?
