In the event you're an audiophile, you might be a fan of excessive resolution music and lossless audio codecs. AIFF and WAV are lossless but uncompressed, so ripped files take up the same quantity of space as they would on a CD (round 10MB…

Read and write FLAC files from any application with TwistedFLAC. I additionally use FLAC. One point to note is that the compression ratio varies considerably with the kind of material compressed. I've posted comparisons of algorithms utili…