For context, LDAC is one of the few wireless audio codecs stamped Hi-Res by the Japan Audio Society and its encoder is open source since Android 8, so you can see just how long Windows is sleeping on this. I'm excited about the incoming next gen called LC3plus, my next pair is definitely gonna have that.
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Because 75MB an album is better than 400MB when you're trying to pack them on a mobile device. Flac is for archival.
Totally get this, but doesn't it just matter less over time? 400 megs in my pocket would have been unthinkable some years ago, but now that I've got a 500GB SD card, I care a lot less (and thus, why transcode)?
And data storage is always getting cheaper, not the other way around.
Transcoding to a (for them) transparent lossy result is perfectly fine if all you do is listen. I couldn't care less about "audio qualities" that I cannot hear.
flac on pc, opus on phone. saves storage space