Really a question for PG but would be interested in the views of other users as well.

The full Audiophile realtracks set is currently running to 400gb+ and will (hopefully) grow rapidly over the next year or two.

If it could be delivered and run via lossless WMA files then this would go some way to slowing down the never ending rise in hard disk size requirements. (my understanding is that lossless WMA takes up about 50% the space of the equivalent WAV - am I correct in this?). It would probably also extend the ability for PG to continue to shipping an ever expanding library on external USB hard drives.

I don't know if there are any codec licensing issues for lossless WMA over and above standard WMA, and I guess that the load/generate time for the realtracks might go up slightly over that for WAV files but other than that it seems like a pretty good option to me.

I would imagine that the Mac users could get their realtracks delivered in Lossless AAC.

I welcome your thoughts!

Regards, Aubrey

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