[jetpig]

I'm not trying to make a case that there's an audible difference between lossless and high bitrate mp3. That difference doesn't exist. There's not a human who can tell the difference between a properly done 320k mp3 and a FLAC file. If someone makes that claim they are fooling themselves. I'm trying to make the case for future proofing and archiving. I want to have a true 1:1 recreation of the waveform for archival as opposed to a compressed form. What if in the future mp3 or mp4 aren't favored formats? Then I'd have to transcode from mp3 into whatever format is popular at the time and *that* will introduce added distortion and compression artifacts that transcoding from a lossless format will not. I'm not aiming for better sound today, I want to maintain fantastic sound into the future.

More than anything, I don't see a reason NOT to release in dual format. It's nothing more than exporting twice at the very last step, right?

Any case, I'm super appreciative of the work going into this and I wish I had the collection or the mastering know-how to contribute. Instead I'm just a poor wanna-be audiophile.