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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by snvzz on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:51PM (#27190501)
>even 320kbps MP3

Not "even" as if that was any good. MP3 320kbps is a very low bar.

OPUS vbr averaging 128kbps is much harder than mp3 320kbps to ABX against FLAC.

MP3 simply is a really bad codec by current standards.

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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by dzhiurgis on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:51PM (#27190777)
Yet if you open Soulseek 99% of tracks are mp3.
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