7.4.12 Fireworks in Moscow!!

Tbh, they've no need for Adam at the Olympics. They'll prolly do one song or a short medley with the British artists that are already performing

I love that Adam's hotel rooms are now (probably)bigger than his LA apt before Idol.

I'm on a Mac and just drag and drop files into iTunes after downloading them.

WAV is the uncompressed audio file format of MS Windows. The files tend to be large, but they contain all the information that was originally sampled (since an analog audio wave converted by a microphone has to be "digitized" by sampling it at small intervals and recording the values found at each sample, the quality depends on how often the wave is sampled). Low sample rates can produce noticeably lower quality sound, but save disk space.

MP3 is based on research by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany and is based on the fact that the human ear cannot distinguish all frequencies or combinations thereof equally well. So they came up with a way to remove all the stuff the human wouldn't hear anyway, thus compressing using a "lossy" algorithm. The compressed MP3 does NOT represent the original waveform, but is perceptually equivalent. In other words, while the file is getting smaller, the quality is degrading less noticeably. Btw, this is very similar to how pictures are compressed in the JPEG format by removing data that the eye would not see, and videos are compressed by pretty much all codecs out there, esp. the MPEG ones.

FLAC combines the best of the two worlds by storing the data a WAV file would contain, but in a compressed stream similar to how ZIP files deflate information by finding repeating patterns and storing them only once. But since FLAC was specifically optimized for finding these patterns in audio data, it works even better than ZIP compression on WAV files. This kind of compression is called "lossless" - after all, if you zip a text document in an archive, you expect to get the EXACT same document after unzipping. Thus, you get the benefit of high quality audio exactly as sampled, but stored using much less space without losing any information. This is similar to how GIF and PNG image files are compressed btw. - both formats don't discard data, and I generally prefer PNG over JPG for my images, but that's another story.