MP3 vs AAC vs OGG: A Simple Quantitative Comparison

[Midwayman]

Not really, on the pc you can keep double copies sure, but on a portable? There are no 1TB iphones. Furthermore no one is passing a blind test with earbuds between lossy and lossless. and of course big files rape your battery life..

Who said anything about double copies on a portable? Sure there are no TB phones, but you can still fit a very useful amount of audio on a normal 16-32gb device in FLAC. Probably not your whole audio collection, but still like 50 full length CDs. Do you honestly need more music with you on a regular basis?

I guess I just don't understand the whole "I have 500Gb of mp3 and need it with me at all times!" thing.

 

[p5ych00n5]

Who said anything about double copies on a portable? Sure there are no TB phones, but you can still fit a very useful amount of audio on a normal 16-32gb device in FLAC. Probably not your whole audio collection, but still like 50 full length CDs. Do you honestly need more music with you on a regular basis?

I guess I just don't understand the whole "I have 500Gb of mp3 and need it with me at all times!" thing.

On my phone at the moment I have roughly 13k MP3s at various bit rates (128gb sd card). I've just started loading up a playlist of FLACs (level 5 compression) which cuts it down to 4.1k so that is quite a drop in available songs, my new 256gb card should up the ante but still would be dwarfed if I continued using MP3.
My mantra used to be load it once, let it play. I'd hate wishing to hear a song/album but couldn't because space constraints restricted me from doing so.
Just my 02