@bogdan@arachnid.town Maybe I should get into piracy sites. I would like to get more FLACs (aka very-high-quality music), but downloading music off of Youtube means I only get lower-quality OPUS/MP3 music.
@bogdan@arachnid.town@dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest Neat! I've been wanting "CAN! CAN! CAN!," by Cosmos on FLAC because of course I wanna listen to one of my favorite albums on one of the highest-quality media formats, but either it's on vinyl and I don't wanna invest in vinyl or it's on Youtube which is lower quality :can_can_can:
@radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top@bogdan@arachnid.town I can help you navigate it and make an acc cuz rutracker is all in Russian and I know a fair bit. They got great music releases on there like whole discographies in FLAC and stuff.
i like to keep those on the cold storage drive* and convert copies out from there. for things that i don't just have ripped from youtube and have the r128gain burned in anyway.
Also also, vinyl is a bit much when it comes to collecting. Needlejuice albums in that format cost ~$40 compared to ~$15 on CD, and there's also maintaining the records themselves, "wow" and "flutter," and getting a high-quality player to consider. Maybe getting a Sound Burger or another type of Audio-Technica player wouldn't be so bad, tho.
@dushman@radmin@bogdan opus bitrates are like double MP3, and 360kbps MP3 is sold as perceptually lossless.
This isn't like AAC where all the encoders are shit but Apple's :neocat_woozy:
(The flacs are still worth collecting since they aren't unreasonably large and we might get a new codec somewhen, it's not like video where one movie would take up an entire drive each)
@dushman@icedquinn@blob.cat@radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top@bogdan@arachnid.town the real problem with opus vs mp3 or flac is that opus was designed for speech not music so even at a high bitrate encoded directly from a flac, the range is trash in comparison, you can hear the difference very clearly vs an equivalent hq mp3 on any even remotely decent pairs of headphones. it works perfectly fine for what like youtube and shit use them for or casual listening but if you actually are caring about audio quality in music opus should go straight into the trash. it will always have a noticably duller sound to some degree. could just be audiophile placebo given what the ranges are exactly but i digress
@m@dushman@radmin@icedquinn@bogdan i think you're mixing something up. opus actually consists of 2 different algorithms, one is for speech m, the other for more general content
@dushman@radmin@snacks@bogdan@m there is a flag in the xiph encoder to ask it for voice. it lists the encoding towards prioritizing voice frequencies and the like, but if your bit rate is high enough i don't think it actually does anything.
- it was rated slightly below AAC in very specific hearing tests - not patented - the xiph codec is world class, whereas AAC coders vary hugely (with ffmpeg being the worst, apple's being the best, and fraunhauffer's own being mid)
i use this sometimes (like when i was comparing webcam and conference mics) because you can put the candidates in their own ardour tracks, feed each track to it, and the button to experiment will change all the names to 'random #' and shuffles them in the list. you click one to listen to, rate it, and when you unblind the experiment it puts them in the original labels and positions but keeps the ratings you gave it
they do things like this in those labs to prove when something is indistinguishable or better without the biases
@m@icedquinn@blob.cat@radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top@bogdan@arachnid.town I could do a test myself by encoding opus and mp3 with the same bitrate on a couple different songs from a FLAC CD rip source. Kinda curious how it stacks up and I have good enough gear to be able to tell a difference.
@dushman@icedquinn@blob.cat@radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top@bogdan@arachnid.town i'm gonna keep using my expired patent codec thank you very much fosstard. all the music on my phone is converted by ffmpeg to from flac to mp3 320k and its a tiny tiny miniscule amount of space there's literally no reason to compress it further, considering i'm not using good headphones on my phone i might as well go 192k or 128k if i wanted to do that anyways, no?
@dushman i wish i could afford it, but i can't. As for internal DACs, i know, but i can't do much. Maybe if i get something that is affordable enough, i'll consider it. @radmin@icedquinn@bogdan@m
@dushman@icedquinn@blob.cat@radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top@bogdan@arachnid.town damn that's pricy shit. i been rockin audio technica m20x atleast until like 2017/2018 now and even i can tell the opus/mp3 difference i dont know about aac/mp3 though havent tested again. most my computers and my phone have more than fine dac like the builtins are rarely so bad but my current netbook i bought out of desperation has an atrocious one, main issue is its quiet as fucking i regularly find myself at full volume on this thing. but it is what it is, i just wish my thinkpad didn't shit itself
actually i have had two pairs of m20x, the first one my cats as kittens destroyed it in a way that just wouldn't seem to work again after repair for some reason, the second is this pair which i had to repair ones relatively recently but it was quite easy, cable broke off in the ear basically
@dushman@icedquinn@blob.cat@radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top@bogdan@arachnid.town i havent played around much with aac and i dont really care to. in the scheme of modern computing an mp3 320k is still tiny enough and i know it works and a well encoded one generally i can't tell a difference from a decent flac rip in my headphones so that's all i care about