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The poor quality is a dealbreaker for me. Yes it's fine with a high enough bitrate, but there isn't ubiquitous support for that.
by frollogaston 1y ago
The poor quality is a dealbreaker for me. Yes it's fine with a high enough bitrate, but there isn't ubiquitous support for that.
- encom 1y agoWhat decoders don't support VBR MP3 at this point? You would have to go back at least 20 years to find software that breaks on VBR. Maybe some very very terrible hardware decoder chokes on it? Incidentally, breakage on VBR bitstreams is buggy behaviour, because some lazy developers assumed frame sizes would never change. VBR is completely within spec, and decoders do not have to explicitly support it. Lastly a note on bitrate: 320 kbps CBR (the max allowed in spec) is often wasteful and pointless. In many cases, an encoder will pad out frames to conform to the requested bitrate. Indeed tools exist that will losslessly re-encode a CBR file to VBR by removing the padding, producing a smaller file. MP3 (as good as it is) has certain problem samples that aren't fixed by throwing more bits at them. A competent encoder with proper settings, like lame which defaults to -V4 is transparent in most samples to most people. If you disagree you should double-blind test yourself.
- frollogaston 1y agoI'll have to check again, but my issue wasn't VBR, it was CBR above 128kbit/s I believe? 2012 Maserati GranTurismo, which has notoriously not-so-good electronics.
- voidUpdate 1y agoWhat settings are you using with MP3 for it to be low quality enough to be a dealbreaker? I save all my music in MP3 and it all sounds perfectly fine to me, and have done forever
- frollogaston 1y ago128kbit/s constant rate