[zanny]

mp3s are good enough for most people. I'm included in that group - I don't perceive the difference between 128kbps mp3s, 96kbps opus, 320kbps mp3s, or flac (though below 128kbps mp3 I hear the difference). At least on my integrated sound cards (I got a creative x-fi card once to see if I noticed the difference on $120 speakers, I didn't). I also only really get $30 - 60 speakers that carry 25w and have some reasonable quality to them, but I'm not an audiophile.

So my entire collection varies from 128kbps mp3s to vbr mp3s and a few flac files in there, but whenever I download something off bandcamp I get the vorbis 128kbps versions because I can't hear the difference.

Amazon should at least make flac a non-default download option. Everyone having lossy copies of music isn't good for the long term preservation of said music.

[freerobby]

You will notice the difference if you ever want to move your music to a better format in the future (due to transcoding losses). With FLAC you would not have this problem.

[zanny]

This is true, I do eventually want to move it to opus if they ever resolve the random seek issues with the codec since it gets better compression ratios and more importantly is open.

But I also figure my 60gb of mp3s would be at least 400gb or more as flac, though given how cheap storage space is that may not be an issue. I guess I should start trying to collect flac music after all!