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For context, LDAC is one of the few wireless audio codecs stamped Hi-Res by the Japan Audio Society and its encoder is open source since Android 8, so you can see just how long Windows is sleeping on this. I'm excited about the incoming next gen called LC3plus, my next pair is definitely gonna have that.

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[–] Deathcrow@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Xiph really won the lossy codec scene with Opus and I transcoded all my junk to that format. Hitting (my personal) transparency on 128k vbr is flat out impressive

Same here. I've left myself a bit of a safety margin at 144k vbr, but having my whole library at transparent quality AND portable size is very convenient.

Though, now that opus 1.4 is out I feel a bit of anxiety whether i should re-encode everything from flac->opus1.4

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 2 points 1 year ago

I also prefer 144k vbr, glad to see I'm not alone.

[–] madeindjs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which tool do you use to re-encode everything to opus ?

I tried with ffmpeg and it works but I had many issues with covers.

[–] TwinTurbo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Use opusenc directly. It preserves covers and the CLI is literally opusenc --bitrate B INPUT OUTPUT.

[–] Deathcrow@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

same as @denissimo@feddit.de I use foobar2000 + wine. ffmpeg is alright, but fb2k is very convenient (especially for replaygain tagging). Afterwards I usually give the files a Picard treatment to get proper tags + covers.

[–] denissimo@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use foobar2k via wine. Yes, you may stone me. Tip: You will save heaps of space by not embedding the cover on each file, just put a cover.jpg in the albums folder, virtually any player will pick it up.

[–] Deathcrow@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Tip: You will save heaps of space by not embedding the cover on each file, just put a cover.jpg in the albums folder, virtually any player will pick it up.

Except when streaming the file or copying a random file to another location. embedded art is pretty convenient, 500x500 is plenty large enough and doesn't take a lot of space (~50KB)