Nil wrote:
On 03 Apr 2019, "Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

FLAC is indeed a lossless format, but I've never used it. For one
thing, it only reduces the filesize by about half anyways, so why
bother. And it's not universally supported.

FLAC natively supports information tags that can be read by any player
that plays FLACS, which is almost every one that's not named Apple. I
see no advantage to using uncompressed WAV files for anything except
editing.

If FLAC isn't "universally" supported, it's within inches of it.
Windows 10 even supports it as an OS feature.

I simply meant there are some audio utilities or audio players that won't
recognize it (along with some other formats too), like some portable mp3
players, for example. And since it only reduces the file size by half, for
both reasons I don't see much use for it, but that's just my own take on it.
:-). For me, mp3's are the saving grace, with their concurrent 10:1 or
better reduction in file size, whilst yet negligible sound loss. :-)