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[–] WheatleyInc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Advice: FLAC is better than mp3

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But mp3 is smaller and I can't tell the difference in a blind test.

I'll just leave this here: https://abx.digitalfeed.net/

[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then for you it doesn't matter. But it may matter to people you share your music with, and I think higher-quality should proliferate instead of lower-quality.

Also I listened to that A/B test - glitchy mess on my android phone for some reason, but still got 23/25 with my $10 Panasonic earbuds.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most people can't tell. That's why 128kb streaming is doing so well. It's also why "hifi" streaming is just snake oil, and FLAC and any bitrate above 128 is a waste of space. Anybody's who's into music should take that test and figure out if they should be storing FLACs and paying for things like Tidal.

But it takes all sorts, like for example listening to FLAC with $10 Panasonic earbuds.

[–] pascal@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hold on, you can totally hear the difference between 128 and 320 kbps encoded MP3s, even with some generic mobile phone earbuds.

[–] HeneryHawk@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

I don't notice it on any of my sound listening options, never have but I definitely do hear it on a buddies high end setup

[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I normally just listen to podcasts on those earbuds, but it's what I had at the moment, so it's what I used.

[–] jeremyparker@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe for you rich people who can afford $10 for a 256gb ssd.

Kidding aside, I've been collecting digital music literally since Napster, and a lot of it is mp3 because storage was a commodity for a long time - getting flacs meant I had better quality of less music.

Now that things are changing, when I want to listen to something old, and I notice it's a lie quality mp3, I had over to see my cousin Roman. (Was that dude Russian? Does that euphemism work? How about My Friend Vlad or something. Russian torrent sites. I'm talking about Russian torrent sites.)