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AAC is mostly Apple-stuff and I'm out of those pictures. Where do you have a music streaming platform that serves Opus? Flac is the best trade-off. I get the or
by pimeys 10y ago
AAC is mostly Apple-stuff and I'm out of those pictures. Where do you have a music streaming platform that serves Opus? Flac is the best trade-off. I get the original quality, I can store my files to a cloud service and stream the music without using too much bandwidth (it's 2016 anyways). I have seriously good headphone system at work (for the price of a new iPhone) and at least with Style Jukebox I can switch between 320 kbps mp3 and the original flac where I definitely see a difference.
There is no price difference when buying mp3 or flac and storage + bandwidth is cheap nowadays. If I need a lossy compression, I want to have a control on the compression parameters.
- sjwright 10y agoAAC is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standard. You probably listen to AAC-encoded audio far more often than you realise.
- teach 10y agoIf you can tell a difference between 320 kbps mp3 and FLAC, then your mp3 encoder has a bug. I promise you that you can't ABX the two.
- pimeys 10y agoMp3 is really useful if I transcode and stream some music while having data caps. But do I really have any valid reasons to archive the music I own with a lossy codec? And as I said in another branch in this discussion, mp3 + bluetooth compression is pretty awful already.
- teach 10y agoIf you care so much about music fidelity and are using bluetooth, then I'm inclined to say you deserve what you get. I keep all the music I own in FLAC as well, but have written scripts to transcode to Ogg Vorbis for portability.