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by iggldiggl
1635 days ago
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> That MP3 format compresses them, makes songs sound artificially louder, and you lose some sounds from the studio quality version. Erm, I think you're confusing audio compression in the sense of reducing storage space requirements, and audio compression in the sense of reducing the dynamic range of the audio to make it e.g. appear sounding louder. MP3 (and other lossy audio codes) are about the former, and have absolutely nothing to do with the latter. And while there are some merits to just using lossless compression these days if you're not storage space-constrained (certainly still not true for my phone, though), in blind tests people have been mostly unable to reliably distinguish between lossless and high-bitrate lossy music, all the more so with newer codecs than MP3, like AAC or Opus. (MP3 has some fundamental problems when dealing with short sharp sounds for example, which cannot be fixed by simply throwing more bitrate at it.) |
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