How are you being fucked over exactly? If you don't want it in FLAC that badly, just convert it to whatever bitrate you prefer and you're done.

>>53437252
Downloading one album in FLAC is the equivalent of like five in reasonable V0-mp3 format. It takes forever with my current connection.

>>53437319
You're still getting it for free though.

>>53437319
Your internet provider is fucking you over then, not FLAC.

you don't understand the point of flac, it exists primarily to transcode to other lossy formats

>>53437319
You're getting an album for free thanks to the generosity of a stranger.
Stop whining.

>>53437382
These people in every fucking thread
Why would you need to transcode when v0 is the ultimate format
you don't
>ib4 opus
it's a minor difference and once the standard changes for good you should just rip things straight into opus, but you don't need flac to make your special snowflake opus

AAC is underrated

>>53438532
Are you fucking retarded, or fucking retarded?
Just fucking transcode the FLAC files into mp3 v0 and delete the original flac
Ta-da you have your shitty mp3 and you dont have the flac taking anymore space up

>>53438613
>Just fucking transcode the FLAC files into mp3 v0 and delete the original flac
but that's fucking retarded, that's just wasting peoples time, energy and space
>shitty mp3
enjoy your placebo you pleb, in terms of bitrate v0 is all that makes a difference, and 24bit actually causes noise

>>53438718
if you can't afford good enough internet to download FLAC in a reasonable amount of time it's likely that you can't afford a good enough sound system to be able to tell the difference anyways

>>53439451
my internet is fine and unfortunately I download flacs regularly
there is no sound system in the world that would let you hear any difference because there is no (audible) one
it's like distinguishing between two kinds of silence, electronics might help you differentiate the two somehow but you're still a retard
if you think otherwise you're a pleb that doesn't understand audio

>>53438718
>wasting peoples time, energy and space
No, its not wasting "people's", its wasting a person's, and that person happens to be a gigantic faggot

>>53439906
>someone indulging themselves in a bullshit culture of meme encoding is not always the faggot in a given social context
ekkek

>>53437207
It's worse when it's in a shitty mp3 codec like 320kbps honestly. It can take a while but it's free music so whatever. Remember that the whole point of FLACs is as a storage format to convert into lossy formats, although there are definitely idiots who think it sounds better (hi Neil Young).