Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?message-squaremessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squareFalseMyrmidon@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoConversely low res audio clearly sounds like trash.
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoUp to a certain point, yes. >192k AAC / OGG / Opus sounds just as good as FLAC in a blind test, though. Even with good equipment.
minus-squareFalseMyrmidon@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoYeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
minus-squarebob_lemon@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agoBack when a 4 minute song was like 1.5MB so you could fit more music on your 256MB mp3 player because you could not afford an iPod.
Conversely low res audio clearly sounds like trash.
Up to a certain point, yes. >192k AAC / OGG / Opus sounds just as good as FLAC in a blind test, though. Even with good equipment.
Yeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
Back when a 4 minute song was like 1.5MB so you could fit more music on your 256MB mp3 player because you could not afford an iPod.