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for me it was sd cards and mp3 and flac support, any insight into why you prefer opus?
by daeros 3y ago
for me it was sd cards and mp3 and flac support, any insight into why you prefer opus?
- manmal 3y agoOpus is Vorbis‘ successor. Vorbis should no longer be used for encoding, except if you need to stay backwards compatible. Eg if you needed to shrink a FLAC collection I‘d use Opus.
- jszymborski 3y agoI rip/buy all my music using FLAC, and then put what I want for e.g. flights on my phone in Opus since you can get muuuch smaller files w/o degrading quality. The general consensus on MP3s is that 320kbps VBR is universally transparent quality, whereas that number is about 120kbps VBR for Opus. Honestly, depending on the music and how good an ear you've got, Opus at 96kbps is pretty great.
- arp242 3y agoWith a decent encoder (and most are decent these days) VBR at V0 should be transparent too, and is much smaller than a fixed ratio of 320kbs. I'm not entirely sure how it compares to Opus, but it's a better target than 320kbps fixed rate.
- LeoPanthera 3y agoYou can’t have “320k VBR” for MP3, because 320k is the maximum available bitrate. You can either have 320K CBR, or VBR at some lower average bitrate. As long as you’re using LAME, MP3 is transparent far below 320k. There’s never a need to go that high. For archival purposes, use FLAC, not MP3.
- jszymborski 3y agoGood to know. I see "just use 320K" as the mantra in a lot of forums, but I also see people claiming they can hear the difference between Opus @ 128K and 192K, which I promise you I do not. Frankly, 96K and 64K are pretty great to my ears.