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-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.
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.