From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: GNU/Linux is the Empowerment of the PC. So What Do You Do?
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 20:20:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> 
> You could also do lossless compression.
>

True.  But the discussion is about MP3 files.

Lossless compression is usually done through FLAC, which is yet
another FLOSS success.

I play my FLAC files thusly:

flac -d -c file.flac | aplay

What could be simpler?

A lot of music, for example the chuckleheads on YouTube, will
distribute music as VORBIS or OGG.

GNU/Linux can handle all these cases as well.