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Ok so what exactly is better than FLAC? I'm not aware of any "usable" lossless encoding algo. Truth is "nobody" bothers to develop open source lossless audio codecs. Of course you can always buy Dolby because there seems to be the "efficiencies" that you are looking for along with locked-in hardware and locked-in software.

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By "resources" in this case I was referring to storage space. I could have written my comment more clearly, sorry. I do really like FLAC for saving space, and I hate websites that have 20+ seconds of interaction latency.

Edit: Of course websites being slow has nothing to do with storage space, but it has everything to do with wasting resources – whether that's storage space or CPU cycles.

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