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Thanks to my bottomless pit, I’ve had the wonderful liberty of keeping all my audio in lossless format. This means that I store it on my computer like you would an mp3 album, but without compressing it. The audio is identical to the CD. For those who are technically interested, I use FLAC to do a little compression (about 50-60%) to get the albums down to about 400MB.

I just wanted to say how nice it is to listen to uncompressed music casually. That’s the excuse most people give when they make their mp3s — “I’m just listening to them casually, so I won’t notice any compression”, which is usually true. But I actually think your ears get used to listening to compressed music, and forget how nice the real thing is.

189 Gigabytes (left) isn’t unlimited, even though I’d like it to be, so I’ll probably continue to encode in Ogg Vorbis, probably at quality 7 or something. But for those deserving albums like the one I mentioned yesterday (which keeps getting better every listen), no bits will be spared.