It has to get to your ear somehow

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We're a bit lacking in poll action without Mr Ewing around so let's have a quick nose at everyone's listening habits!

[Poll #748512]

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

by the time you do they will be being marketed as FLAC playas!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Fun Love And... C0ck playas?!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

It's a lossless compression thing - i.e. all the quality of a WAV with a file size somewhere about 60%-70% of a WAV rather than 10%-15% of a WAV which is where mp3 is at. A WAV here is what would happen if you took the digital information straight off the CD and saw how much disk space it took.

Did you really want to know? :-)