end of story already ???
what abt file size , compatibility with car / home stereos , cellphones and even with movie encoding . players plugins . alternates to flac ???
was tinking abt something a while back , audio cd's held only few songs in each disc . so people started using mp3 to store more cd's on ,then costly cd-r's and were satisfied even with audio quality going down . this also helped transfer files on then , slow net connections .
now , with dvd's and future blue ray / hd dvd capacities would increase . so , would u still want to compress your precious songs and give away quality for quantity , when u can have more songs of gr8 quality on higher capacity discs . plus with broad band , wouldnt ppl just send highest quality sounds possible ???
after listening to mp3 for years and then listening to a few of the same songs from the original audio cd's , u will notice a HUGE difference in quality . not sure abt flac though . will try it out . u will notice the difference mostly in english songs , soundtracks , themes etc