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Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by baroffoos on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:12PM (#18956766)
I'm similar. I store FLAC on my desktop and then transcode it to opus before putting it on my music streaming server. MP3 doesn't really seem to have much relevance in the modern world other than legacy.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by vonseel on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:46PM (#18956926)
For someone out of the music codec game, is Opus generally the best codec to go with these days?

Any alternatives that work with iOS?

What software do you use to listen to music on your computers?

Is there a good media streaming server with iOS / desktop apps which I could use and then store FLAC on my server and have it transcoded to serve to clients?

Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by 8bitsrule on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:01AM (#18958004)
Opus can be amazing at lower bit rates. e.g. try encoding some music you know well at 64bps and compare to a 128k mp3.

The higher bitrates (above 128) aren't so advantageous.

https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings (Dec. 2018)

Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by chrismorgan on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:33AM (#18958152)
> The higher bitrates (above 128) aren't so advantageous.

That’s just because by about 128Kbps Opus is already effectively perfect, where it takes closer to 200Kbps for MP3 to achieve that.

Opus is just all-round better than MP3.

Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by leeoniya on Sunday January 20, 2019 @09:01PM (#18957002)
> For someone out of the music codec game, is Opus generally the best codec to go with these days?

not for compatibility. mp3 is ubiquitous. my 2017 VW can play mp3 and even flac from an sd card. i doubt it even knows what opus is.

i think you'd be hard pressed to tell a difference between a well-encoded (flac source) 192kbps vbr mp3 and 160 kbps opus. the file size of the latter will be 30% smaller.

> What software do you use to listen to music on your computers?

on windows, foobar2000. it's superb, no bs and has tons of optional plugins.

Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by vonseel on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:05AM (#18959780)
> on windows, foobar2000. it's superb, no bs and has tons of optional plugins.

Old school. I was using that back in the early 2000s. Had a lot of fun with it. But, I've been over in Apple-land for years now... and mostly Spotify for music.

Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by teknico on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:43AM (#18960651)
foobar2000 is excellent on Android too.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by mosiuerbarso on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:00AM (#18957764)
Jriver is good media player which works on IOS, Linux and on raspPI's. However, it's not free. But you can do a lot with it and it'll play movies too. I use on Jriver on my work PC to stream lossless audio to a couple of Raspberri PIs i have around my house/work. I even have it set up for streaming over the internet for when I go away on Holiday. Best thing is about this setup is that all my playlists and ratings stay synced as I'm using just the one library on my main PC.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by shmerl on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:13AM (#18958645)
Opus is the best codec. There is VLC for iOS, which should be able to play Opus files.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by vonseel on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:10AM (#18959810)
VLC leaves quite a bit to be desired in terms of library navigation.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by LeoPanthera on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:17PM (#18956791)
It does have the advantage of being patent free, since they have all expired.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by baroffoos on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:18PM (#18956798)
So is opus and flac. Pretty much all modern audio codecs are patent free.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by LeoPanthera on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:33AM (#18957892)
Can this be proven? No chance of submarine patents?
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by nitrogen on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:29AM (#18958416)
Someone would have sued by now.
Re:Effects of MP3 Compression on Perceived Emotional Charact... by shmerl on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:12AM (#18958637)
> I'm similar. I store FLAC on my desktop and then transcode it to opus before putting it on my music streaming server.

Yep, this seems to be a common practice.