• SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social
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    6 months ago

    128kbps files are roughly 90% compression from raw, so not comparable. I’ll admit that I haven’t bothered with FLAC much, but in my limited experience it generally is pretty rare to see much above 50-55% compression from raw.

    • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Anything that requires remuxing multiple times pretty much requires lossless compression. Else it’d become like screenshots of memes because the compression adds up.

      That being said, last time I was working with professional audio people, they still preferred WAW as their intermediary format.

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      6 months ago

      Thing is, storage isn’t at a premium anymore, so there’s no reason not to use lossless even if you can’t hear the difference.

          • 0x0@lemmy.zip
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            6 months ago

            Good for you, i had one of those.
            Now go check the storage prices now and please define what “premium” is, 'cos last i checked they’re being overhyped - not as much as RAM, but on a similar trend.