Re:Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily...
by SisRob on Monday January 20, 2020 @10:05AM
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Well, the audio quality is already reduced on upload - and much more than mp3 transcoding would.
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Re:Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily...
by qwerty456127 on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:32AM
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Among other options, YouTube offers 160 kbps OPUS (which, AFAIK, can be expected to be perceptually lossless and better than 320 kbps MP3). Would they waste bandwidth on streaming it this high if the actual quality they store is worse than that?
As far as I know every transcoding reduces it further. Even transcoding from 128 kbps AAC to 320 kbps MP3 will make the quality slightly worse.