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Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/memes

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[–] PP_BOY_ 103 points 1 year ago (57 children)

FLAC is a meme for 90% of use cases out there. The difference in sound quality between a .flac and 320 .mp3 is imperceptible to the majority of people and needs thousands of dollars of listening equipment to become apparent. The file size is drastically different, though. Not to mention the fact that almost all music is recorded in .wav files nowadays, and the "lossless" versions are usually just synthetically upscaled for the audiophile crowd.

Not to say that I don't prefer to download FLAC when possible, but I also don't avoid non-lossless albums either.

[–] alvvayson 30 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Yeah, but that argument was compelling in 2005.

With storage as cheap as it is nowadays, a 15 MB FLAC audio file vs. a 3 MB MP3 really doesn't matter anymore. Those 12 MB cost nothing to store.

And to be honest, in cases where storage does matter, a 320 kbps MP3 is just a waste of space. A VBR MP3 with average bitrate around 200 kbps makes way more sense and nobody can tell the difference between that and 320 kbps in a double blind test.

So just maintain FLAC or other lossless for sharing music and transcode down when needed.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

file size absolutely matters when you have thousands of songs lol, my music is a significant chunk of my phone's SD card capacity

[–] TheDarkKnight -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should upgrade from your Razor to a phone made in the last decade, they have a lot more space now.