http://raddevon.disqus.com/enFri, 25 Apr 2008 08:42:19 -0000http://me.raddevon.com/2008/04/an-open-letter-to-indie-musicians/#comment-5369332How is wanting the option of buying FLAC "pro-piracy?"<br><br>I'll admit FLAC lacks support right now, but I'm sure there is a tipping point. Once FLAC is offered by artists and people start buying it, there will be demand for support in devices. In the meantime, FLAC can easily be converted to MP3 for greater portability and less disk space usage while it remains more future proof. You have a reproduction that is 100% accurate. As disk space continues to get cheaper, the fact that FLAC is several times larger than its MP3 counterpart becomes irrelevant. Someday you will have a 5TB portable media player that will hold 1,000,000 MP3s or 165,000 lossless FLAC files. What's the point of reducing the file size at that point? Maybe today you don't have high-dollar headphones, but someday you might.raddevonFri, 25 Apr 2008 08:42:19 -0000http://me.raddevon.com/2008/04/an-open-letter-to-indie-musicians/#comment-5369331I think the reason most indie bands and labels don't generally include FLAC format files is because they're cumbersome, the difference is subtle or, if you're one of the millions of listeners not fortunate enough to have thousand-dollar top-notch speakers or studio-quality headphones, imperceptible, and there would be little market for them outside the hardcore audiophile/technophile/pro-piracy RIAA-antagonophile demographic, of which I'd have to guess you are one of the only members.Colin CampbellTue, 22 Apr 2008 20:49:59 -0000