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.wav

8 (15.7%)

.mp3

13 (25.5%)

.ogg

9 (17.6%)

.wma

0 (0%)

.midi

4 (7.8%)

.flac

7 (13.7%)

.mpeg

1 (2%)

.aac

1 (2%)

other...

8 (15.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[Starver]

Most of the audio I listen to, coming straight (or by recording/replaying) from DAB channels, is .mp2, i.e. MPEG-1 (or -2) Audio Layer 2, as opposed to MPEG-1(/2) Audio Layer 3.

But when using a player that can't handle that slightly retro[1] format, I convert to .mp3, with a little ffmpeg-calling batch-file.  And I always save from Audacity (with the LAME plugin) in .mp3 for similar reasons, even though that also allows Ogg Vorbis...  (Which I should prefer, given that it's half accidentally and half deliberately a Discworld referencing name. )



Interestingly, while at university, one of the suggestions given to me for a project was to find a lossy audio compression...  Ah, if only I had listened to that idea, I might have been the father of the MP3[2] revolution...  Well, maybe not....


[1] Despite both arising in the early '90s...
[2] Or whatever it would have been if the name for it had been my choice!  Might have been "LAF", for various reasons I won't go into[3]...  Not sure if that sounds better.
[3] Although, now I look at it again, it could have been backronymed to "Lossy Audio Format"...  But a "LAF-Player" still doesn't sound quite like the same desirable piece of technology.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I only have .flac digital audio. Same reason I only own vinyls, it just sounds sooo much better.

/audiophile

[Starver]

Same reason I only own vinyls, it just sounds sooo much better./audiophile

Vinyl?  Not a shellac man, then?

[DarkWolfXV]

Im kinda audiophile too, but sometimes music feels better in WAV but im not able to tell why. If i could afford i would buy only vinyl, well if i had turntable though.

[Reudh]

WAV's uncompressed, pure sound. That's why.

[Heron TSG]

I voted other, because all of my favorite sounds come in longitudinal wave format.

Ah, anyway, I like uncompressed files like WAV for quality, and .ogg files when I don't want my sound files to be gigantic.

[Willfor]

BWV.

WAV with extended metadata, and SMPTE time code compatibility.

[kaijyuu]

Kinda offtopic, but why the weird font question mark in the title?

？ vs ?

[Reudh]

Usually means they're running a system with asian-language support. That's MS Mincho, that font, iirc.

[Alastar]

.ogg for most things, .flac where preservation of quality matters.

[Rex_Nex]

320kbps .mp3, followed by .ogg.

FLAC is nice and all, but my headphones aren't amazing enough to notice much of a difference. Its not really worth 5x the file size.