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What is your archival format preference? (Wav | Flac | Shn | Zip | Ape)

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ThePiedPiper:
What is your archival format preference?
Wav | Flac | Shn | Zip | Ape

Follow-up question:
In addition to the formatting listed above, which checksum is your preference (MD5 | FFP | SFV | CFP | ST5)?

Here's a rudimentary test I did with the following formats:

509mb APE (Level 5 "Insane")
526mb FLAC (Level 8)
537mb SHN
627mb ZIP (of Original Wav File)
678mb Wav

This may (more than likely) have been covered on here before, but I'm very curious to read the comments of "who, what, where, when & why".

ThePiedPiper:
Here's some more on this subject. I found it very interesting.

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison

jerryfreak:
FLAC

i havent used .ape since prob 2003

DavidPuddy:
FLAC level 8

Gordon:
flac 8 with ffp.  with ffp you can change tags etc and it will still check integrity.  with md5 if you change anything the md5 will fail.

Your flac size vs wav looks off to me.  I just checked one untracked master (24/48) and flac is 465mb, wav is 723mb

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