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klogg4 t1_j128kbp wrote

Reply to comment by silver-shot in Which lossy codec to use compress with before Android BT AAC transcoding? by silver-shot

You can also have some great experience with Musepack (sounds amazing, no generation loss because it's subband), but the problem is general compatibility - I refused it because I couldn't transfer it to my smart watch and to friends through messengers. Shame, because it's my favourite free open source format, I like it even more than Opus for my tasks.

To my experience AAC FDK VBR 5 is good. Bitrate is something like 200-210 kbps. Sound is generally transparent to me.

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silver-shot OP t1_j1343gn wrote

Yeah, considering it's my first time hearing musepack existing.. I can imagine it might not be as widely supported.. :/

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klogg4 t1_j134spl wrote

Imagine it being older than Vorbis and Opus. Early 2000s.

Maybe the lack of documentation killed it, but in fact it's one of the most epic lossy codecs I have seen.

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