Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In between

  It’s not in MP3, it’s Ogg vorbis and I don’t have equipment and time to have an informed opinion about how good Ogg vorbis is at any given bit rate.

  They claim usual people can’t tell between what they do and better bit rates. I know I’m picky so I know I’ll notice something.

  Remembering t this is Anna’s archive. The goal is preservation of human culture, not pirating.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ogg is better than mp3 at lower bit rates. As they increase in bit rate they become indistinguishable.

    That said, this stuff is way too low quality to care about.

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    • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I like flac and I understand the human desire to get the best quality of anything. You can’t tell the difference between 25mb flac and 2,5 mb 160 kbps opus though.

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Alright, I will concede that Opus at 160kbps is really good. I always knew at low bitrates it was better than mp3 but I have not used it in awhile. I store everything in flac.

        But if anyone else wants to compare: opus-bitrates.anthum.com lets you compare various bit rates of Opus. I think I hear a high end distortion in 160 that I don’t hear in the 512, but it could be expectation.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember hearing something about Ogg vorbis being outmoded by some other Ogg? I don’t know I’ve moved from mp3 to FLAC personally.

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    • sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, Ogg Vorbis’s sucessor is Opus, which is amazing at low bitrates. That’s why they used 75 kbit/s Opus for all file with popularity = 0 opposed to the original 160 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis for all files with popularity > 0.

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  • termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In my experience the container format is kinda irrelevant, the important questions are : Is it lossy or lossless ? What’s the bitrate ?

    Having listened to Spotify and Apple Music Lossless, there is definitely a noticeable difference. I have blind tested myself with the help of family members and I can always tell which is which after like 30 seconds, and I have terrible ears (tinnitus since birth)

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Spotify has bitrate options

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  • nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re talking about the files Anna’s archive is torrenting.

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