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Whats the benefit? --With todays bandwidth and storage prices, do we really need to compress audio for delivery over the net?
by jrace 7y ago
Whats the benefit?
--With todays bandwidth and storage prices, do we really need to compress audio for delivery over the net?
- tasty_freeze 7y agoIf you are on a cell phone or a cellular hot spot, data caps are still a thing. I pay $10/GB for my hotspot bandwidth ($5/GB when it is on sale). 40 minutes of streaming music at 4 Mbps is 1.2GB, so up to $12 for me.
- mark-r 7y agoComcast has a cap on my cable modem. I keep my music files local so I don't need to pull them from the internet.
- CameronNemo 7y agoSoundCloud is barely scraping by on some low bitrate streams. Maybe the user can afford it, but the streaming company has margins to keep.