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despite being of lower quality I still use vinyl sometimes, it has a sound I like. In the end it is all about personal preference. I have a hard drive full of flac backups of all my cds, from there I convert them to AAC (sometimes apple loseless) and put them on my ipod. I have tested myself and with my current equipment I can detect the difference between about 320kbps (constant bit rate) mp3's and the original cd. (mind you it's hard but I can do it most of the time.) For portable listening however I make do with about 192kbps AAC which isnt' wonderful but it's acceptable for me.
It really is all about personal preference in the end. I know people who think 128kbps mp3s are fine and dandy while I can't stand them. and I know people who think that loseless is the only way to go.
btw EAC is not open source last time I checked.
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A damn dirty hippie without the dirty part....
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