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by wvbdmp 58 days ago
I was holding an external USB floppy drive the other day and the form factor, the tactile experience and the satisfying ejection mechanism got me fantasizing about a floppy jukebox with one song per disk. I’m sure it would be dope, but even for a regular 3 minute track you would have to seriously destroy your audio quality to fit into 1.44 MB. Those things are tiny! The best you could do would probably be some metadata that plays the song from elsewhere, but that’s lame and now you’re moving from being storage-constrained to leaving it 99% empty…
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Actually with Opus you can compress a three minute song to 1.44 MB without it sounding absolutely terrible. I definitely don't have the best ear for music, but when I compared a three minute song I compressed with Opus at ~67kbit/s with the original, I couldn't tell the difference.
yep, 64+ Kb/s opus should sound fine on most hardware to most people :D

https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings

https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Opus