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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Up to a certain point, yes. >192k AAC / OGG / Opus sounds just as good as FLAC in a blind test, though. Even with good equipment.

[–] FalseMyrmidon@kbin.run 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Back when a 4 minute song was like 1.5MB so you could fit more music on your 256MB mp3 player because you could not afford an iPod.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh yeah. 128k rips from back then were rough. MP3 has gotten somewhat better since then, to be fair. V0/V1 VBR is still perfectly fine to listen to; it's just not as efficient as the newer codecs.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

256/320 MP3s also do well. 128 MP3s not so much.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah they do, although CBR performs noticeably worse than VBR with Lame MP3. As I mentioned elsewhere, MP3 @ V0 or V1 VBR sounds just as good as the above. I just personally haven't used MP3 for years because the newer codecs are more efficient.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

VBR is always preferable over CBR, no matter video or audio encoding. I use OPUS a lot. Also YouTube providing OPUS 160 VBR as audio stream option for all of its content is very handy.