Top 1000 Albums FLAC?

[Lm Mt]

A BOSE system is not something you want to boast about .

Generally speaking, MP3 is not even the best lossy format. It's been supersede by other formats but everyone uses it because it's the most popular and most common.

In terms of the FLAC versus MP3@320kbps argument, there's a lot of variables including the type of music you are listening to. Or in some cases, the way the original music was mastered (example see recent release from Metallica, the original CD was so horrible it didn't matter). For me I would normally used AAC for portable music and FLAC for achiving.

[jbelljarnet]

Actually, I've had a couple of small Bose 'Room Mate' portable systems that have traveled with me around the Earth a couple of times for 20+ years (still working). And WAY back when I had a top line Bose 901 speaker system that blew anything else away in it's price range 30+ years ago.

But, again, as I jiggled the numbers here, the idea that 1000 FLAC albums would be 'insanely large' as some have intimated, is a bit of a stretch. Even at 700MB per (as pure wave files, 700MB being the max storage of a single CD, maybe 30% less as FLAC), that figures to 700MBx1000, or 700GB. That's 'worst case', most albums are less than 500MB per, and the 'average' is probably around