Nope, but storage is so cheap who cares? might as well keep the lossless

oh probably not. (Maybe lower bitrates, especially when you're just stopped sitting in the car charging on a trip).

The comparison should really be usb vs phone+bluetooth, the radio and streaming.

A USB flash drive is: bigger, holds the music you want to play, skips and seeks instantly, and "theoretically" can be organized how you like it.

I say "theoretically" because there are plenty of other bugs with tag grouping and sorting that disorganize your music for you.

I just wrote a python script to retag all my music. As to FLAC/Apple Lossless - it's nice not to have to resample the music too.

Probably not in a car, but playing back 320kbit MP3s on a large sound system (eg djing in a club) is noticeably different to lossless or even to better lossless formats.

Post your ABX logs.

And more specific: with car audio and on a busy road

I can't even hear the difference between 128 and 320 :|

I read somewhere that younger people (I guess Millenials that grew up with Napster) might prefer 128kbps to lossless in blind audio tests because it sound better to them — artifacts and all — as it's what they are used to.

Anyone has the source for this?

Even if I could I genuinely don't care.