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by stordoff 3578 days ago
It depends what your needs are. I only even listen to my collection of music from my NAS via (W)LAN connected devices, so maintaining a version more suited to mobile devices isn't necessary or useful to me.
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shmerl 3578 days ago
Yes, of course. I like using portable players, so FLAC is counter productive there. I see no point in streaming anything if you can just put files on your player and not depend on any connection.
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Joona 3577 days ago
> I see no point in streaming anything if you can just put files on your player and not depend on any connection.

Sure, if that works for you, but my collection is too big to fit on my mobile device (even after encoding it in Opus instead of FLAC).

I suppose my use case is rather rare, but even then, why not give the ability?

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