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by przemoc 3979 days ago
About what "Lossy FLAC" you're talking about? Do you mean perhaps [1]?

If FLAC would ever gain a lossy mode, it would be a disaster, because it would be instantly (ab)used and it would be misleading to a lot of users. "FLAC is not Lossy" [2] and it will hopefully remain that way forever.

(Of course it doesn't prevent people from encoding audio into FLAC from lossy formats, but it's a completely different matter.)

  [1] http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=55522
  [2] https://xiph.org/flac/features.html
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TD-Linux 3979 days ago
In addition, Xiph also has two lossy codecs, Vorbis and Opus, which are actually designed for lossy encoding. Opus is also currently the best available codec for music compression, among both free and nonfree competitors: http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm
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ValentineC 3979 days ago
If I wanted a hybrid format, WavPack [1] would have been great, if only there was more ecosystem support for it.

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=WavPack

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