What lossless format should I use? I am confused
Reply #8 –
So WMA9 Lossless may suit you.
Compared to Monkey's Audio and FLAC, it's the slowest of the bunch, in terms of both encoding and decoding, and it also has the lowest compression ratio.
To add insult to injury, both the encoder and the decoder are closed-source.
Hardware support is nonexistent at the moment, and to my knowledge, no announcements of upcoming devices supporting WMA9 lossless have been made.
I wouldn't recommend using this format for anything.
When I compared WMA 9 Pro Lossless to FLAC, WMA had a slightly better compression rate! It also was a bit faster on my machine. However, I have to admit that I only compared 10 songs and finally switched over to WMA 9 Pro Lossless