I voted for FLAC because when I listen to digital music I prefer it be lossless, and that's the format I usually go for. Most often, though, it's usually MP3s. I hardly ever use CDs but I have on occosion. I miss cassette mixtapes from when I was a kid (yeah we still did it in the late 90s) but that can't make up for the terrible quality.

So... I failed to mention Analog Radio, Internet Radio and Youtube on here. Which are both pretty widely used fo discovering/listening to music.

I would have voted FLAC, it looked like you could do two votes in the old poll, so I thought I could here, lol. I voted CD but FLAC would be first out of the two. I would choose ogg FLAC but you only need that really if you're going to be editing the audio, which I wouldnt be, but you can easily convert between the two any. They're both solid.

Flacs are a waste of HD space in my opinion. If I replaced my entire collection with flacs, well .. it just wouldn't be feasible. It would take far too much space. As such, it's not a practical digital format for me.

I actually own a player piano with a pretty big collection of rolls. It was all willed to me after my grandma died in the fall. But I've since upgraded to the Edison Wax Tube :p:

Ok, for real now, digital music files. I use iTunes (because I'm too lazy to use anything else) and it's all in the Apple Lossless format.

I've always thought those pianos were really cool. I'd love to own one one of these days.

Then now is the time to think about getting a new turntable that can convert analogue to digitial.

I listen to CDs I like the feature of skip, repeat, random on CD players something record players don't have, but I prefer LPs for sound, dispite thier fault. And you can convert them to mp3 etc.

Their production peaked when audio recordings became more popular. The one I have was a pneumatic one (where it was powered by these bellow-type things and your feet pushed these big pedals at the bottom), but my grandma had it converted to electricity years ago. So now when you turn it on and put a roll in, the keys are being pressed by nobody. It's freaky and cool at the same time!

i'm a recent flac convert. for me it's not so much about quality as it is about archiving my collection. i put a ton of effort into sorting and tagging and cataloging my music, and i expect my digital collection to be with me for a long time. but if i want it to grow along with technology, i figure i need the most flexible format possible.

flac is lossless, so it's equal in quality to a CD, and in fact can be used to reproduce the original CD 1:1. it's a free codec, and it is widely supported (even on an iPod if you install the RockBox firmware).

as for size - yes, it's big. but today 1TB drives cost less than $100, and 1TB holds a lot of flac.

the biggest disadvantage is that flac can be hard to find. but i always enjoy the hunt :)

That's a good point, with the way things are going CDs could become obsolete in the near future. The main advantage of a cd over vinyl was it's compactness, you could slip a cd into your discman and listen to it wherever. But now mp3 players have taken over and people only listen to cds at home on their stereo, but why listen to a cd at home when you could listen to a vinyl record with better sound reproduction.

I probably will get a new turntable soon but i'm a bit weary of converting vinyl to digital, i'm not really sure what the sound quality of the file would be like. But a lot of new records come with download codes so you can download the digital product as well.

I voted mp3 because it's all I can really listen to anymore these days. I do love me some vinyl though.