Phish Moves To FLAC

sethadam1 writes "Due to customer feedback, Phish, who have served as pioneers in the pay-per-download online music arena with their livephish.com site, have recently converted to FLAC compression for their high-quality download offerings. Could this be an indication that FLAC may be adopted as the de facto lossless audio compression standard?" And fans were using it long before ;)

Comments

Could be

[MrZilla]

It's all about someone taking the first step. Most end users won't install new codecs for anything unless they absolutley have to (like divx), or if it's included in the player/program they're installing (like mp3 in winamp).

More sources start releasing their audio in FLAC, then more software developers will include support for it, and even more audio will be released, and so forth.

It's always that first step that's the hard part, after that, good solutions often spread themselves.