[zimpenfish]

> None of which really seems to make any difference in a world of near-limitless bandwith.

Does to me - I have more than a terabyte of field-recorded FLACs that I'd like to put up on the net for people to listen to or download.

Compressing them to q1 OGG (and I'm not sure that's good enough quality for some of them) only gets that down to about 20-25% of the size (eg 200408_0403.flac at 540M goes down to 128M) - even if I host them on S3 or B2, it's still going to be costing me a not inconsiderable sum if people actively listen or download.

If this can get them down to 5-10% with usable quality, that makes life a lot easier (but obviously would depend on browser support, etc.)

[Gigachad]

Would be easier to host them as a torrent.

[zimpenfish]

Doesn't really let people play or download them singly - what I'm after is basically a self-hosted Soundcloud where I can add commentary around each file (location, content warnings[1], etc.) and people can listen on the page.

Currently contemplating doing this using Hugo since there's nothing really workable out there.

[1] I've got a lot of recordings of the local square and there's frequently screaming children, screaming alcoholics, the occasional person having a mental crisis, dogs barking violently, etc.