Whats the difference between flac n mp3? is it really that huge?
No its not. FLAC is usually atleast 3 to 5 times the size of an MP3 and to the human ear, it is BARELY noticable. But collecters just prefer the FLAC's, which is fine.. but timebomb here is a little over the line, and will threaten you if you are "an mp3 lover"?
thanks for the file
but you're wrong in your statements about FLAC files. They are not ''huge files identical to mp3 but freaky collectors want them because they are complicated people''
Differences between a FLAC file, from a real lossless source, and mp3 are VERY noticeable. Maybe not in a 10 bucks PC stereo speaker set, but in a decent audio system, the differences are more than noticeable.
In my opinion, when someone records audio from a stream, its recomendable to encode it in a 320 kbps mp3 file. It would still be a small file, and the loss of quality will be reduced at the minimum. If we are talking of just one file, like in this case, I would encode it to flac ''just in case'', but I know that its completely senseless to convert a shitty 32kbps stream to FLAC if we are talking about a 2 hours set