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I'd recommend transcoding to 96kb/s VBR Ogg Opus during crawling.

• mynewtb 9y ago
  The goal of archiving is making a perfect copy. Transcoding ruins that.
  • fiatjaf 9y ago
    That's not the goal of archiving.
  • colejohnson66 9y ago
    Not relevant in this situation, but to be fair, archiving analog media isn’t about making a perfect copy, just a good one. Also, when old DRM encumbered games (StarForce, etc.) are archived, the DRM is removed first. So not a perfect copy there either, but just an as good as you can get copy.
    • mynewtb 9y ago
      as perfect as possible then, no need to argue about the 'perfect' phrasing. It's clear what I meant in the context. Both your example require transformation, while archiving unprotected digital media is as easy as making a copy.
• voltagex_ 9y ago
  Why? You increase the CPU requirements of the crawl, lose quality from an already low bitrate file and then have to QA the new encode. All for a very small decrease in filesize.