I arrived late to the meta-data party. I'm preparing to transcode all my newly tagged flac-lossless files to mp3's. They are really only used in the car and portable situations. Any reason to encode ...

FLAC for archival and to use as a lossless transcoding source. Ogg Vorbis for listening, currently using q9 quality (~320 kbps). q9 is overkill, but the files are still small enough that it's not an ...