Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?message-squaremessage-square564fedilinkarrow-up1294arrow-down14
arrow-up1290arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square564fedilink
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·edit-26 months agoUp to a certain point, yes. >192k AAC / OGG / Opus sounds just as good as FLAC in a blind test, though. Even with good equipment.
minus-squareFalseMyrmidon@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·6 months agoYeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
minus-squarebob_lemon@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoBack 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.
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-26 months agoOh 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.
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.
Yeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
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.
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.