> If anyone someday down the line inherits your FLAC collection, they'll be listening to it out of nostalgia, not for the pristine audio quality
I beg to differ on that. The 30s jazz records that are so wonderful musically still sound like shit nowadays. That's a major deterrent to playing them.
> I have a phone that does take an SD card ... but most people don't.
I can't say about the numbers, but I didn't have much trouble finding a phone that took them in April 2021.
In general terms: over the last 50 years, it's never been a terrible move to waste CPU cycles or disk storage. Especially if it's a permanent choice.
I beg to differ on that. The 30s jazz records that are so wonderful musically still sound like shit nowadays. That's a major deterrent to playing them.
> I have a phone that does take an SD card ... but most people don't.
I can't say about the numbers, but I didn't have much trouble finding a phone that took them in April 2021.
In general terms: over the last 50 years, it's never been a terrible move to waste CPU cycles or disk storage. Especially if it's a permanent choice.