128kbps files are roughly 90% compression from raw, so not comparable. I’ll admit that I haven’t bothered with FLAC much, but in my limited experience it generally is pretty rare to see much above 50-55% compression from raw.

Unfortunately when republicans find out we are spending money fighting disease in other countries, they think why help them?

That’s the problem - they don’t think, but instead react according to their lifelong programming from bullying. They’ve been trained by their masters since childhood not to reason anything out beyond the shortest path to one of a set of predefined conclusions. It’s so instinctive by the time they’re adults (teens, really) that they have absolutely no clue it’s what they’re actually doing deep down.

Bring it to the US - we’ll give it a whole new lease on life…

🙄😔

Yeah, sorry - my comment was meant to poke fun, but unfortunately came out more accusatory. Not what I meant, so sorry about that. I just thought it amusing how quickly and thoroughly things veered off in another direction.

If your goal was to seriously derail the topic of discussion, I applaud you for a job extremely well done.