A couple of questions ref Flac files

[hatab]

what is the benefit of audio flac files.

i see more people are ripping to flac files rather than mp3, wma etc i see they are bigger in size so is the sound quality better ?

what is the best player to use to get the benefits ?

 

[nara]

FLAC files are reckoned to be the best of the uncompressed formats. Very popular with audiophiles who rip their CD collections to a server and access them with one of these:http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html?