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by XorNot 3984 days ago
Personally sound quality is more important to me. I'd be a lot happier if Taylor Swift had put her foot down for FLAC-encoded downloads being made available or something.

Because trying to find those is literally impossible.

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> Because trying to find those is literally impossible.

Well, 'nearly' impossible. Google 'FLAC streaming service' and you'll find tidal.com. I don't know if there's any other. If you don't pay for music downloads, then finding them isn't a problem [1] but rather troublesome.

Most people don't know FLAC exists and they don't care about sound quality. Take a look at the top 100 music torrents on thepiratebay [2]. None of them is FLAC.

[1]: https://thepiratebay.gd/top/104

[2]: https://thepiratebay.gd/top/101

Qobuz (http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/plans/music-streaming-subscriptio...) does FLAC streaming, but it seems to be Europe-only, for some reason.
Conversely I've never had any trouble finding Flac-encoded torrents of any track I've wanted. There's just no way to pay the artist (usually) for them, because for some reason record companies think CD sales are worth protecting.
So buy the cd and encode that?
For back catalog that's often cheaper than buying the tracks online. Why pay $9.99 for an album I can get used for $6?
R.I.P. Oink.