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TK420@lemmy.world 9 months agoYeah 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!)
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I used to fight the uphill battle against iTunes and my music. For home listening I had it all as Flac, because Flac, but for mobile I could then swap Flac for Apple Lossless kinda easy. iTunes would not recognize Flac files natively years ago (probably meow, but I don’t know).
Once Plex became my [media project] life, I didn’t want to fuck with all of that [converting CDs mentioned before] and just stuck with wav files. The OG so to speak and I’m pretty happy I’m not re-ripping music anymore. Now, new music, yes those eBay purchases get washed, ripped and stored in a binder, which is so much fun.
Do I hear a difference, maybe. What I do know is my quality issue is once it goes out of my phone via Bluetooth to my headphones. I hope one day that’s not the bottleneck. Could already be there I just don’t know.