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		porbelm 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015... With space not much of an issue anymore, FLAC is pretty much the default nowadays. And even though Opus and AAC and others have better encoding than old MP3, but I guess a 128 Kbps MP3 encoded in the original Fraunhofer l3enc (the best back then) and one encoded with LAME will be different - and the LAME version will be "better" because of improvements in psychoacoustics? At least I remember l3enc being MUCH better than anything else at 128 Kbps (Xing lol, cymbal washing anyone?) before LAME came along.

klez 9 months ago [–]

> With space not much of an issue anymore, FLAC is pretty much the default nowadays

The default for what? Space is not the only consideration. What about bandwidth?

I'm pretty sure spotify, deezer and the others are not transmitting FLACs, especially not at the base quality level.

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