It’s not lossless but current ogg vorbis at 160kbps is absolutely transparent for the vast majority of people. That’s actually what I chose to keep my own collection, I mean, outside of the lossless albums that I absolutely want to flawlessly preserve.
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blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
How does it compare to 192 and 320 bps mp3?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I’d say in general it’s the same, but way lighter than 320 kbps mp3. It’s better than 192 kpbs mp3 and as good or better than 256 kbps mp3.
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
If you have really high end speakers you can hear difference between 160 Vorbis and 320 MP3, but between 160 Vorbis and 192 MP3 no way.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Thanks.
I hear the diff between 192 & 320 (probably 256 is enough but better safe than sorry I thought so that’s what I use) so 160 vorbis is very good but not totally perfect for me then.
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Am I losing my mind? All magnet links are metadata, no?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 week ago
They havent released the music files yet
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughy the quality level of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so little listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossless stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Opus is what I’m encoding my working library to. I like ripping to flac (and archiving them as such), but the advantages to smaller file sizes for the working library are worth it for me. So far, I’m really liking the format.
I keep the archive on spinning hard drives, but the opus library on ssd (which makes browsing much quicker, and no unnecessary spinning up the hard drives.)