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by hollandheese 997 days ago
Funny thing is that even on a Pentium 1, it doesn't make much difference. You'd have to go to a 486 to really choose WAV. Even then FLAC is absolutely playable, it just takes a bit more than twice the CPU of WAV (70% vs 30%). MP3 though on the 486 is just too heavy to do.