Willer

I think musicbee had a plugin that could do that, havnt had any quick success with it.

I had a three point argument ready on why that line is not sexist but i forgor 💀

Killer samples are lossy sounds that are distinguishable from lossless regardless of bitrate. They are usually handcrafted extremes that you wouldnt find in any real audio.

Its a shame that you NEED a secondary lossy archive. You can only do true on-the-fly functionality when the syncing and music app are not seperate. Currently i use MusicBee for the transcoding and resilio for the syncing. I should propably switch over to syncthing too tho.

how much of that did you at least listen to once

There could be a metric fuckton of reasons why the file on your computer and the file you downloaded from a store sound different, but the codec most definitely is not one of them, assuming they are good first gen lossy encodes.

I collect flac wherever i can on my Computer and sync it to my phone with transcode to lossy. I agree tho, a good lossy encode cannot be distinguished from their lossless version. Even less when you dont have the immediate comparison.

Three reasons:

• collectors appeal -> music on the internet comes and goes. Chances are that your file that you downloaded randomly becomes the only one available. having it in best available quality is the icing on the cake.
• generational loss -> the ability to transfer your music to any future media you like without/with minimal loss. Also if you remix/cut/edit stuff it keeps quality high
• killer samples -> given more agressive music, codecs might fail. There are some examples on hydrogenaudio.

Thats why most of my yotuube downloads is .mka I found that matroska has better support than webm or ogg lol

Under 100 kbps it sounds significantly better. I have decided that i dont want to choose on the least shitty lossy option tho, when i can have flac.

*refuse to elaborate

*leave

Actually might be the best action if someone sais that. Maybe let out a bit sigh. Get some snacks or sth.

Its important to not force anything here. Its FINE if theres just no opportunity to talk. It might come off as you beeing obsessed for validation or sth.