I can now enjoy FLAC!

I’ve been on record—geddit?—here stating that MP3s are my preferred audio format. MP3 is no longer patent encumbered, it’s widely compatible with anything I throw them onto, and the quality difference between 320 Kb/s MP3s and higher fidelity formats like FLAC (and ALAC) were imperceptible to me. That was true at the time, but I’ve since proven myself wrong. I can hear the difference. Though it took a few changes in my circumstances to realise. Last year in Vietnam (shoot, I still haven’t pos...