Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange...well don't get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren't stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you'll be glad you did.

When I've gone back to some really old mp3's from way back 'in-the-day' (90's, Napster, 56k modem) most of my mp3 library sounds like crap, mostly due to the technologies available at the time. I notice an unusually large amount of "pops" in a lot of songs and a 128k rip sounds more flat than a new 128k rip (both sound terrible regardless). Anybody who knows how data is written to a disc would know that bits do get lost over time.

I'm an arrogant, elitist, analog snob with 2 vintage hifi systems (1 solid state/1 tube based) that can expose every imperfection in an mp3 file. It absolutely cracks me up when people think their crappy OEM soundcard, crappy best buy cables, and crappy desktop speakers are suitable benchmarks for judging sound quality.

It's pathetic how nowadays people have allowed themselves to compromise quality over convenience and cost.

Awesome! I love flac.

Not sure if serious...

You just had to spoil it

Ah, thank you. That's what I get for not caring about audio ;)

FLAC is the best choice! Demand FLACs! :)

And after that don't forget to thank GOG for bringing them :>

Thanks for the laugh, first time seeing that trolling theme. And many thanks to Judas for explaining.

But I'd like to point that the part I quoted is actually true. I can't expect to actually hear the difference with my on-board soundcard and 15 year-old value-buy speakers. So while it's nice to deflate elitist myths, it's not really useful to dismiss everything regarding quality. Both of the extremes are equally deluded and smug.

By the way, it's really frustrating that my old cheapass speakers are markedly better than new $120 Logitech set. I would expect new technologies to make cheap speaker sets of better quality than a decade before... Silly me.

You also removed Disciples 1. I assume you forgot to list it here.
MaGog's list is here: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post3301.

Am I the only one who thinks FLAC is a waste of Harddrive space? If you want true quality demand to get it printed on vinyl!

Is this for real? Like, is that an actual thing?
I am not too familiar with audio formats.

EDIT: It appears it is not. Now I just feel silly >.<