On 2015-05-10 6:27 PM, Tom Fine wrote: > Just to be clear, I never advise clients to go for a compressed format > as their archive format. I happen to agree with Tom, but the National Archive of Australia appears to have created a tool which translates all audio into FLAC files for their archives...that was the basis for my original question. XENA (no relation as far as I can tell to the like-named Warrior Princess) appears to ONLY output audio (including WAV files) to FLAC files. I thought it odd which is why I brought it up? Does anyone know of any other initiatives moving that way? I don't think the EBU will buy into that after all their effort on Broadcast Wave...which many of us have followed. Yes, I'm aware of the arguments for and against. I chose to rip CDs to FLAC for personal use and have since also made a set of 128 kb/s MP3 files of that archive so I can fit the vast majority of my ripped archive onto a 64 GB card in my phone. I have about 12,000 "songs" which include symphony movements. Cheers, Richard -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.