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[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why would I want shitty mp3s when I can get crispy flacs just as easily? Fkn lol

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Maybe enjoy crispy 128 .opus? Yeah flacs are on another level... But 100MB/file just doesn't justify the negligeable quality increase you won't even notice anymore in your late 40s !

However, saving TB of disk space does !

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What are you downloading that's 100MB?
Maybe a WAV.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Naah ! Most flac I have are in the 50/80 range but when you have a huge library it doesn't make sense to archive in flac IMO.

It makes sense if you are music producer, but my whole library would need a huge SSD cluster :/

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There is a solution to this, get a real flac and convert it to opus 🙂

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeaaah ! That's even better ! However, I'm listening to some obscure Electronic music which often doesn't come in flac format :(

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 4 minutes ago

Oof, sorry that's the case. I wish more artists would encode to a lossless format.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's great for you but I fucked up my hearing by listening to Linking Park on maximum volume in the cheapest Chinese earbuds a third world teenager's allowance could buy circa 2006.

.... And getting stuff from YouTube takes 3% less effort.

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

show me anywhere other than youtube that has the demon cleaner cover by tool

point is that it is good for the random one-offs but agreed on how much easier it is to get flac over mp3, seems like most stuff i cant even find mp3

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

Well technically from youtube at least they're either oggs or m4as. However, yeah, flacs are better if you can get real ones.