Firefox and Chrome now support FLAC. What uses will there be

FLAC music streaming services that require gigabit Ethernet at best.

>amerifats and aussies btfo

>>58726534
>FLAC music streaming services that require gigabit Ethernet at best.
lol no

literally no one will give a shit except a few audiofools who claim they can hear the differance between 320k MP3 and FLAC without proving it.

I'm fine with MP3 V0.

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>>58726437
Local playback :^) But at least if it had a visualisation or something :( boo

Finally, my shitty laptop speakers will now sound amazing right??

great, now I can embrace Google's dominance by replacing foobar2000 with chrome

>>58726534
(You)

>>58726437
Very few. Maybe some streaming application somewhere? Aside from having the support for more formats, there's hardly a benefit.

>>58726786
STOP PRETENDING TO BE FEMALE TO GET PEOPLES ATTENTION, GOD YOU'RE WORSE THAN TRIPFAGS.

>>58727278
Don't respond to it numbnuts. Filter, hide, and move along.

>>58726437
Browsing dropbox and file host sites with flac files.

>>58726614
I don't use flac like that. I use it to store music. Although I do listen to flac since I play music from the computer I store the music on, not thag I think that I can hear it any better.

>>58726614
If you have good headphones you can hear the difference.

>>58730305
This. Same here.

>>58726614
"I have no idea what good hardware is"

>>58726614
I download it just to convert it to .opus because .mp3 is nonfree format.

>some audiophile website have some FLAC playing interface
>some imageboard can finally allow its users to share flac without the download option being mandatory
The browsers are less incomplete now.

>>58726644
This.

>>58731784
But Opus is garbage at tagging

>>58732124
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>no DSD support

>>58726644
it's 2017, get good

>>58732124
>Opus is garbage
Ftfy

>>58732124
elaborate

>>58726437
Someone should make a decent local music player that works in the browser.

this is another example of the open source community innovating the direction toward a better standard

>>58726614
>>58726644
>Not Opus
u wot m8

>>58730319
>>58731569
No, you can't hear the difference. Well encoded 320 or V0 is transparent on 99% of songs, no matter how good your audio equipment is.

>>58734430
More players need to support it.

>>58726437
It's a free format suitable for audio archiving and the format is simple enough that there won't be any doubt whether it's supported in 50 years - why not support it?

As for whether you'll need it above Opus or Vorbis, very probably not.

>>58726534
Here is your (You), but for anyone confused - uncompressed CD audio is only 1.411Mbps; FLAC, typically around half that. Lossy audio is only actually required for streaming over mobile connections, ISDN or modems.

>>58726644
Yes, you probably are fine with LAME -V0.

In fact you're probably also fine with LAME -V2 @ ≈192kbps, because that is perceptually transparent (on anything except degenerate samples that MP3 cannot encode) in every major listening test ever run.

Do a double-blind ABX test yourself if you doubt me. Publish the results. We did, when devising the --alt-presets (as they were then) in the first place.

>>58732124
Spoken like someone who has never actually had to implement ID3v2. Fuck you, and fuck your tag format.

Vorbis comments are far from perfect - they're particularly annoying when people don't stay consistent with what keys they use. But they're always better than ID3. I don't think I've ever seen a worse tagging format than ID3. There's a whole "latest version" of ID3 that literally nobody uses because it's so bad.

>>58726534
>FLAC music streaming services that require gigabit Ethernet at best.
You mean around 2000Kb/s?

>>58733765
96k is p smooth tho

Opus is the actual fucking unsung masterrace codec