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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Conversely low res audio clearly sounds like trash.

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Up to a certain point, yes. >192k AAC / OGG / Opus sounds just as good as FLAC in a blind test, though. Even with good equipment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Back when a 4 minute song was like 1.5MB so you could fit more music on your 256MB mp3 player because you could not afford an iPod.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh yeah. 128k rips from back then were rough. MP3 has gotten somewhat better since then, to be fair. V0/V1 VBR is still perfectly fine to listen to; it's just not as efficient as the newer codecs.