On Mon Dec  9 17:54:11 EST 2013, conor.williams@gmail.com wrote:

> FLAC seems huge (again) compared to Mp3 but I will try the Flac - according
> to:
> http://www.head-fi.org/t/654057/alac-vs-flac
> there is good compression alright...

sure.  but that's not engineering.  engineering is balancing the cost
of a resource vs the benefit.  so we're trading storage against sound
quality.  storage is ~$15/GB, and sound quality is subjective.  so
it's up to the customer to determine where on this continuum the
solution should be.  but it does seem a tad rich to say that an extra
$10 or so of storage is extravagant  (assuming steve's 50% compression.)

- erik