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> Correctly used, lossy compression can have zero audible consequence no matter how good the equipment or how "golden" the ears. That's why the compression sho
by pimeys 10y ago
> Correctly used, lossy compression can have zero audible consequence no matter how good the equipment or how "golden" the ears.
That's why the compression should be done by me or by the original producer to have it done correctly case by case. Lossless is a good compromise it being easier to apply automatically for any kind of music.
- sjwright 10y agoCorrectly used just means not using stupid settings like 96 kbps MP3. Apple's standard of 256 kbps AAC is correct in all cases.
- pimeys 10y agoBut this still doesn't solve the original issue: if I buy music, it should be me who packs the files if I need to lose some information and I should own the original copies lossless. And as I also said, bandwidth and storage space are super cheap nowadays, so I really don't see so many reasons to use lossy codecs.
- lozf 10y agoFor some definitions of "all" I agree. i.e. for Hifi quality Stereo Music to end users where file size and bandwidth are not so important, yes fine, but in situations where space or bandwidth are limited / expensive, AAC can achieve transparency at well below 256kbps with most music, to most people, in which case it would often be overkill --especially for Audio Books, lectures, plays or other mainly speech content... conversely for 5.1 or greater multi-channel audio it's often insufficient.
- sjwright 10y agoSure, I was just talking about stereo music where audio quality is high priority. For streaming audio, the ideal setting might be different depending on the commercial priorities of the service. For audiobooks, convenient file sizes will probably be higher priority than maximal compression transparency. For multichannel audio, you would need to progressively increase the bitrate on a per channel basis.
- lozf 10y agoYes of course, sorry -- I was kind of in 'reddit mode' and being particularly pedantic about "all cases". Agree with all your other points, and glad to see others that grok it.