![]() ![]() In 1999, (now owned by CBS Interactive) was one of the first websites to sell MP3s, but dedicated players (like Rio PMP300) could be sued by record companies. The problem with WAV is that it required twice as much space as FLAC. ![]() ![]() The musical file format was compatible with PonoPlayer and a variety of other portable music players (PMP), as well as hi-fi components, and was created as an alternative to other lossless formats emerging at the same time, including WAV and WMA Lossless by Microsoft and ALAC by Apple. The FLAC was first released to the public through the official release of the PonoPlayer and its affiliated web store in 2001. While the format predictably prevailed, another better choice for high-quality music was about to be emerge. MP3s had become known as the ideal pirate format owing to the sharing site Napster, which had reached its peak in infamy. In the late 1990s, the MP3 – one of the very first portable music file formats – was becoming quite bothersome. In addition, FLAC files can be purchased at a similar price to MP3 files in online stores, and they sound much better. Guitar, reverb, cymbals, and other sounds can appear distorted when overly compressed or poorly ripped. The appeal of FLAC is in the fact that it does not lose any sound quality during compression, unlike other common audio compression formats like WMA or MP3, which shave off parts of the music to reduce the file size.
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