[vorbis] Why FLAC, why not MAC?

[Josh Coalson]

--- Csaba Horvath <ch4r1ie at freemail.hu> wrote:
> Why do some of you use FLAC for lossless encoding? I've done some
> test and MAC filesizes were always smaller. I don't seem to see what
> the problem is.

For most users, a couple % difference in filesize is usually far
outweighed by FLAC's advantages (open patent free codec, portable
open source (BSD) reference implementation, documented API, multi-
platform, hardware support, multi-channel, etc.).

http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html
http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html

Josh

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