• arin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Well if you go apple you don’t, but freedom is on Android. Flac is awesome

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      7 months ago

      nah just convert them to ogg/opus unless you’re archiving music. there’s literally zero perceptible difference

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        7 months ago

        I hear the difference, it’s very clear difference with either heavy metal or music with natural sounds.

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            7 months ago

            Yes, i actually can’t listen to Spotify (even their HD) because the quality is so bad (sounds noticably bad to me). I pay for lossless streaming even though some indie music is not available on the lossless service so i go look for it on lossy services.

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              You’re telling me you’ve gone through all the effort of performing a double-blind test all by yourself?

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          you’re probably lying or this is kind of placebo effect .
          opus, with some exceptions, can reach transparency at even 150kbps (and of course you can and should go higer)
          if the difference does exist it will never be “clear” to a human

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            Is ogg lossless? Just because you have limited hearing doesn’t mean there aren’t people who can hear differences. There are women who can see more colors than normal people (tetrachromacy). Assuming someone is lying because they aren’t hearing damaged is absurd. Also young kids have better hearing(less damage) than adults, hearing damaged from work or life conditions like traffic with windows down.

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              well if you need both recordings and an audio spectrometer to even notice the difference, it might as well not exist. good lossy compression is indistinguishable from lossless

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                7 months ago

                Ah yes thank you for verifying that it’s not just as good

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                  <0.1% non-perceptible audio quality “difference” is not worth 500% the storage space usage, unless you’re archiving/preserving the audio and absolutely need the original bit-for-bit representation
                  if you’re just listening to it use opus, or in the worst case ogg vorbis