• @CassiniWarden
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    32 months ago

    It’s an open source codec. I convert from FLAC (lossless) to Opus (lossy), I couldn’t hear much if any difference between FLAC and 128kbits opus, your mileage may vary, but it saves me 10x space, very useful for a big library on an SD card compared to lossless.

    • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      Reasonable audiophiles usually agree that 320kbps mp3s are as good ar raw/wav/FLAC. They’re maybe twice the size of 128 ones IIRC, who everyone notice the drop of quality in. 160 is okay IMO for walkman or car territory.

      GBs are cheap nowadays too :-)

    • @aluminium@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      I even have encoded the audio on some older videos down to 64K still cant hear a difference over bluetooth.

        • @cmhe@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          You cannot compare kbps numbers of files encoded with different codecs and make assumptions on quality.

          Each codec is able to compress differently good, so a 64kbps in opus sounds much better than 64kbps in mp3, for instance. 128 kbps in opus for stereo is plenty, quasi-lossless, while on other formats it is pretty bad.