[sethhochberg]

Yep. FLAC is for archiving and home playback. Lossy formats are king for portable usage, and when I'm using modestly priced IEMs plugged into my phone with the background din or a train or airplane, I'm really not in a position to care about the debatably negligible differences anyways.

(I'm a classical trained musician, I've worked as a recording engineer. I've used great equipment, heard pristine live music in beautiful acoustic spaces, and am totally willing to compromise to "good enough" for portable use). I archive my music in a lossless format simply because I want options later as better lossy codecs like Opus come around.