@ceralor it's less about playback and more about it being lossless. To avoid the deep fried multi copied effect. it's less of a problem with audio but I have a number of older songs that have bad audio from being re encoded too many times as they were passed around. and the artist never got huge so this stuff is all that's left.
@Doephin Why were they getting re-encoded so much? o.o But yee, the boost is in regards to the survey, and pretty sure it's Bandcamp downloads, so they're all first-level encodes hehe.