Hi Chris, thanks as ever for the clear and detailed insight!
Both this article and the one you posted last year entitled 'Are WAV files really better than FLAC?' are super relevant to the ways I consume music.
I wondered if you could advise on where converting apps like XLD stand in terms of automatically 'downsampling' files when they are converted (I can't see anything about this in the program's preferences). Whilst XLD is obviously very convenient for retaining tags etc when converting lossless files, I wouldn't hesitate to switch to one of the other methods you recommend if you think the audio quality would be compromised by XLD.
Hi Chris, thanks as ever for the clear and detailed insight!
Both this article and the one you posted last year entitled 'Are WAV files really better than FLAC?' are super relevant to the ways I consume music.
I wondered if you could advise on where converting apps like XLD stand in terms of automatically 'downsampling' files when they are converted (I can't see anything about this in the program's preferences). Whilst XLD is obviously very convenient for retaining tags etc when converting lossless files, I wouldn't hesitate to switch to one of the other methods you recommend if you think the audio quality would be compromised by XLD.
Thanks,
Mike