content: There's no reason to use lossless formats. There's no perceptible difference between a LAME encoded 320kbps MP3 and a lossless file. This has been established again and again through extensive tests by audio professionals with reference quality systems on just about every music production forum on the internet. I know for myself at least there's absolutely no way I can tell on my near field monitoring system or with any of my headphones, and I do a whole lot of critical listening on this system. Unless you've got an extremely high end system and golden ears better than the average mastering engineer, there's no way you're hearing a difference either. Do some blind tests with accurately level matched files if you really want to know. This site provides an accurate blind abx test for all kinds of lossy formats against lossless: http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html    1ffa