I have my music collection sitting as FLACs on my Multimedia PC, connected to my stereo System. I also have a service running that mirrors my music collection by converting it to m4a files and automaticly sends it over to my phone once it connects to my home wifi. I have set up the conversion (qaac64) so the difference between a flac and the m4a file is unnoticable over my bluetooth buds (playing the m4a from my phone).
While I cant hear the difference on my phone, I definiley can hear a difference on my stereo / hifi headphones
Part of whether you can tell a difference depends on your setup. If you have average gear, it would only make a minor difference. Also depends how much you care about how things sound. Most people don’t give much of a shit if things are muddy or clear.
The bigger issue is that if you decide to convert to whatever new lossy format might become popular in the future, it will be worse to convert from lossy to lossy than from FLAC to lossy.
I use FLAC to archive my CDs and convert to mp3 to listen to them on my phone, in my car, etc.
FLAC master race check in.
FLAC on a NAS for self-hosted streaming.
I don’t really notice a difference it just takes up storage
I have my music collection sitting as FLACs on my Multimedia PC, connected to my stereo System. I also have a service running that mirrors my music collection by converting it to m4a files and automaticly sends it over to my phone once it connects to my home wifi. I have set up the conversion (qaac64) so the difference between a flac and the m4a file is unnoticable over my bluetooth buds (playing the m4a from my phone).
While I cant hear the difference on my phone, I definiley can hear a difference on my stereo / hifi headphones
Part of whether you can tell a difference depends on your setup. If you have average gear, it would only make a minor difference. Also depends how much you care about how things sound. Most people don’t give much of a shit if things are muddy or clear.
The bigger issue is that if you decide to convert to whatever new lossy format might become popular in the future, it will be worse to convert from lossy to lossy than from FLAC to lossy.
I use FLAC to archive my CDs and convert to mp3 to listen to them on my phone, in my car, etc.