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also are .mp3, yet they are hardly discernible from the originals


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bityard11/08/2024

Ability to tell MP3 from the original source was always dependent on encoder quality, bitrate, and the source material. In the mid 2000's, I tried to encode all of my music as MP3. Most of it sounded just fine because pop/rock/alt/etc are busy and "noisy" by design. But some songs (particularly with few instruments, high dynamic range, and female vocals) were just awful no matter how high I cranked the bitrate. And I'm not even an "audiophile," whatever that means these days.

No doubt encoders and the codecs themselves have improved vastly since then. It would be interesting to see if I could tell the difference in a double-blind test today.

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Dwedit11/08/2024

Lossy audio formats suddenly become very discernible once you subtract the left channel from the right channel. Try that with Lossless audio vs MP3, Vorbis, Opus, AAC, etc. You're listening to only the errors at that point.

rini1711/08/2024

not at 22kbit :)