Comment on Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player?

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re ripping the music yourself, you’re going to be hard pressed to be able to tell the difference between 256kbps and 320kbps. Both are essentially indistinguishable from lossless.

  If the streaming service is actually using 256kbps, then they must be transcoding them or using a really shitty method for encoding.

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• manuremy@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  … Welp, that’s a whole lot more! Thanks for this correction!

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  • sgh@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just to not sound like a complete asshole… ofc the 25% boost does not depend on bits/kbits, the difference is still 256 vs 320, but I just wanted to emphasize that the expected result is 25% bigger in all terms.

    If it helps to imagine, the space needed to store a 256k 5 minutes song will store a 320k 4 minutes song. Then, you are already relying on a quite decent quality beforehand so it’s all extra quality and details.

    I usually hear the difference in the high frequency sounds, which is exactly what is otherwise sacrificed in low bitrate compression formats.

    FLAC will produce an even better sound, as it’s lossless, but for most songs I couldn’t justify the file size difference.

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    • manuremy@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not asshole-y at all, I’m real grateful and learning a lot today! :) I have never really even thought about these things.

      I haven’t really listened to my songs in FLAC, but the MP3 already sounds very, very good and it takes such a tiny space, so it could be enough for me. For now…?

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