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Re:Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta by oefrha on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:24AM (#35535345)
Reduced bandwidth obviously leads to better quality at the same target bit rate. Phone speakers are good enough to reproduce some obvious compression artifacts of, say, 32k/64k HE-AAC, let alone higher end headphones. ABR could definitely help.
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Re:Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta by dehrmann on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:17AM (#35535664)
> Phone speakers

Hmm... You could detect the output type (built-in speakers, headphones, bluetooth) and change the audio quality accordingly.

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Re:Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta by oefrha on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:17AM (#35536053)
The phone speaker mention is a response to gp’s claim that “phone speakers aren’t good enough to notice”, which is not true. We’re not talking about 128k aac vs lossless here.
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Re:Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta by awill on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:57PM (#35545854)
>>Reduced bandwidth obviously leads to better quality at the same target bit rate

or, more likely, lower bandwidth at similar quality.

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