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Re:Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio? by oliyoung on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:26PM (#47510397)
As the author points out, it's not really a "MP3 vs Uncompressed" conversation, it's a "which encoder are you using" conversation ...

because any of us from the late 90s/early 2000s who used the early versions of LAME will tell you in a second how easy it was to pick MP3 over raw, even at 320kb/s

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Re:Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio? by saltcured on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @09:32PM (#47512049)
I remember this repeated with the opensource AAC encoders. We had pretty decent LAME MP3 output by then, but everybody wanted to squeeze bytes and suddenly we were hearing a lot of terrible artifacts again.

Few audio things bug me more than the kind of tinkly pre-echo effects that were pervasive for a while.

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