> FLAC has a minor compression but not as much as MP3s. Much much much better than MP3, > that's for sure. > WAV -> around 1400 kbps > FLAC -> between 950 kbps and 1100 kbps (depends on the encoder choices)
This is like comparing jpeg and png.
MP3 is a lossy compression which means it doesn't contain all the data of the original file. While FLAC is eeer... name is speaking for itself: Free Lossless Audio Codec... Free Lossless... Lossless... Think about a zip file! you can go from raw to zipped and back from zipped to raw without any data being loss. This is what lossless means.