Re:FLAC 1.3.4
by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:27AM
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Gotta give the audiophools lossless so they can listen over compressed Bluetooth audio.
Re:FLAC 1.3.4
by denton-scratch on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:18AM
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The reason this "audiophool" uses FLAC is because I want my music collection to be stored at the same quality it was when I paid for it; and FLAC is more conservative with storage than PCM.
I don't stream it; and I don't use it on a phone. If I ever need to do those things, I can convert from FLAC to lossy, knowing that I'm starting with something that is as accurate I can get.
That is, I'm implicitly using FLAC as an archive format. Gzipped PCM would work, except that I can't play that directly in a music player. I don't care about a bit-flip rendering a FLAC unplayable; my collection is backed-up.
Basically, I'm not going to pay for a CD full of bits, and then immediately throw away a lot of those bits.
Re:FLAC 1.3.4
by dangravell on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:57AM
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This. It's just silly to throw data away. Who knows when you might need to transcode?
LOL I didn't write that part since HN has a long and what I think is pointless argument last time we discussed bluetooth and audio.
There are lots lossless audio compression. Each with different set of priorities and trade offs. From Compression Ratio, Decoding and Encoding Speed etc. I agree FLAC is a very good codec, especially for consumers. But I am not entirely sure it is a "marvel". Arguably WavePack does somethings better, especially when doing it patent free. ( Sort of irrelevant now at this point in time )
The world has moved to streaming, and it is only a matter of time when lossless becomes a standard. Like both Apple and Spotify are planning. 5G will improves capacity, so by the end of 5G migration sometimes in 2030? This is sort of off topic but HN on one hand dont understand 5G and suggest not upgrading to 5G but on the other hand wants to have more Data for the same price and start doing lossless streaming. Well you cant have both.
While I wish we could research and push the lossless ratio down to 33%, or push 128kbps lossy audio codec to be truly transparent. But much like modern audio codec all research are now going to low latency and real time. Which seems to be a much much harder topic.