At least on some Japanese online music stores 32bit WAV files are already commonly sold, example http://ototoy.jp/_/default/p/50962
On this website they're always 32bit floats or 24bit ints, though, no idea how realistic float support is. My personal opinion is that having compression for this kind of distribution would be good, and if they use something else than WAV, then it would be good that they'd use a free format like flac, even if it's very unlikely that any living human could ABX this against regular 16bit ints. However, having no back compatibility could also be bad: if the consumer uses old software or hardware player and find some flac files to not be able to playback, they can lose faith in the format, especially when there's no easy way to distinguish between compatible and non-compatible files. _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
