Best Audio Format for Storage? (kbin.social)

submitted 5 months ago by stevecrox@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What is the best format settings to store a physical music?

I did look at Flac but the data is almost the same size as the uncompressed Wav and none of my devices or self hosted services seem designed to play flac files. Everything gets converted.

What are people using?

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[-] swooosh@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

What could I gain from switching? Playing mp3 will always be there and even if support is dropped in 30 years which is highly unlikely, the server can transcode on the fly. I'm unfortunately/ luckily no person with ears that can hear a slight difference between losless and 128kbps

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

For you personally? Not much at all. For a real archive future proofing is great.

[-] unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 5 months ago

A lot. Mp3 is a proprietary format on copyright. Some idiot ceo can came and change the rules, let's add an ads mandatory for each decoder. Today with a bunch of open source good quality formats, is kind of pointless depending on a private company for your music.

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Mp3 is a proprietary format on copyright. Some idiot ceo can came and change the rules, let’s add an ads mandatory for each decoder.

This is not true. Copyright is not relevant to an encoding standard. The standard has been unchanged for 26 years and all legal claims of patent rights related to implimentations of the standard have expired before May 2017.

@swooosh@lemmy.world you should probably know about this as well.

[-] swooosh@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks!

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