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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by musicale on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:33PM (#37698647)
Those bad mp3 cymbals and the wash of noise...

Higher bit rates (and probably improved encoders) help though.

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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by astrange on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:21AM (#37699579)
Cymbals in MP3 sound bad due to fundamental limitations of MP3; even high bitrates can't fix that.

It's not a problem in any other codec though. You probably couldn't hear the difference in AAC or Opus.

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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by musicale on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:07PM (#37710675)
Interesting - it's a persistent and annoying problem. I assumed that better bit rates would improve the issue but most compressed music I listen to is AAC where it may be better.

Do you have a reference for the MP3 issue?

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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by astrange on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:59PM (#37711087)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120222124415/http://www.mp3-te...

The highest frequency band doesn't have its own quantization level meaning it's hard to control the bitrate when there's detail in it.

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Re:Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean ... by JohnFen on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:14PM (#37706347)
Higher bit rates do help some, but not enough.
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