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by antihero 538 days ago
Those people generally didn’t care about audio quality, YouTube for me seems synonymous with unreliable bit rates and disorganisation.
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Quoting a reddit post:

> Youtube's best audio is format 251: Opus with a variable bitrate target of 128k. Note that 128k Opus is approximately equal in quality to 320k mp3 (as in, it's generally considered transparent)

I care a lot about audio quality and I use YT premium for music just about every day. You also get enhanced bitrate on some videos with premium.