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My understanding is Spotify (premium?) can also serve low quality audio when the user has a poor connection? YouTube compression is horrible but passable for ma

by mcny 7y ago

My understanding is Spotify (premium?) can also serve low quality audio when the user has a poor connection? YouTube compression is horrible but passable for many people, I think. People listened to music on AM short wave and medium wave just fine as well. The key point was that radio was readily available.

Biganon 7y ago
320 kbps mp3 is not horrible at all. You wouldn't use it to archive your music, but it's barely distinguishable from FLAC.
- geon 7y ago
  Pretty sure youtube only use 128 kbps, which is a lot worse. As you say, 320 kbps is nearly perfect.
  - danlugo92 7y ago
    FWIW youtube serves 128kbps AAC though, not mp3.