Ok, so I'm a firm believer in Lossless audio. Seeing as it's no longer 1997, dial-up is almost a thing of the past, and hard drives are so mammoth, I just don't see the point of using a lossy format such as mp3.
With that being said, a few years ago, I decided to have my library ripped in a lossless format. FLAC had already been around for years, but at that point in time, Wavpack seemed like a good choice. The developer of Wavpack lossless was a major audiophile, and he was really active on both Hydrogenaudio and CD…