this is just something i've been wondering about since everywhere i look everyones always carrying on about how FLAC is so much better than mp3's.

is there honestly ANY difference in how it sounds (I mainly listen to music on my mp3 player and laptop) or is it just a waste of space? right now i've got 18-20gb of music on this laptop all as mp3's and if i were to convert it to flac the file size would go from 20gb of 451gb up to maybe 80gb of 451gb, seems pretty stupid to me to waste that much space on music alone (FLAC = around 4x the size of any mp3)

just checked and all that music as FLAC would come 1gb over what i currently have in my roms & emulators folder (got some big games in there)