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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by noisem4ker on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:18PM (#19994389)
YouTube probably has the best catalogue of electronic music too, but since they removed the 256Kbps AAC format, we're stuck with the audibly lousy, frequency-limited 128Kbps crap. Well, it was good till it lasted.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by clarry on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:10PM (#19994919)
What frequency limit do you see?

Opus is transparent at that rate. Heck it's virtually transparent at 96 kbps, and does a great job at 64 kbps.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by bscphil on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:04PM (#19996484)
They're probably getting mp3 streams I would imagine. Definitely not transparent at 128 kbps. I'm not sure who Youtube streams Opus to, I should look into that.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by Iv on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:38PM (#19998000)
On a random electro-swing video I get the following choices in youtube-dl:

audio only DASH audio 53k , opus @ 50k, 1.01MiB

audio only DASH audio 69k , opus @ 70k, 1.34MiB

audio only DASH audio 130k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 2.63MiB

audio only DASH audio 136k , vorbis@128k, 2.59MiB

audio only DASH audio 140k , opus @160k, 2.69MiB

Seems pretty decent to me.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by bscphil on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:03AM (#19998384)
Yes, I'm actually quite impressed that they offer opus @160k. The real issue with Youtube is that you never know what the source was. If they're reencoding that from a 128 kbps mp3, that suddenly becomes much less impressive.
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