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by Jam-O 1239 days ago
Great! Excellent fit for DAWs where lots of samples stay in memory and decode concurrently.
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A DAW is definitely not going to want to use a lossy format.

Most DAWs store audio internally as uncompressed 32-bit floats. That gives them plenty of headroom (which is important for gain staging).