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victorz@lemmy.world 9 months agoGood stuff!
I see, so you just store the CDs raw? Are you like an audiophile with super equipment and all that? 🙂
And you listen (only?) from Plex on all your devices, or no?
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah I store the CDs raw. I have enough storage on my phone that I can load up from PlexAmp. I do a lot of offline listening so I love the download options and I usually stream my whole library from my server over WiFi.
I have a good amount of video downloaded in the main Plex app, workout vids, a few movies and whatever series I’m watching. All works out pretty well.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Okay so wav is mainly convenience for you, not a quality must-have, I take it?
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, quality is a thing which is why I’m using wav files. Audio files are tiny compared to video files. I’m approaching 1TB of music, where my video library is much larger, approaching a factor of 10 times as large….and also compressed. I’m not ripping my CD library in its entirety over again. I did various mp3 versions over the years and am done doing that to a different format again.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My university signals processing teacher a decade or so ago said something which I forgot, namely that there’s a difference between quality and fidelity. Fidelity is what I meant to use 😁 whereas quality is the measurement of how little data you can use to store equivalent signals.
Which springs to mind, did you consider FLAC? You’d save a small amount of data, I guess, but it’s lossless so you have both the true fidelity and higher quality (less data). 🙂 I’d be interested to hear if you explicitly discarded it as an option. Maybe the gain is negligible for you, e.g.
(By the way, thanks for yapping on about this with me!)