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klogg4 t1_j9spd56 wrote

Reply to comment by Longjumping-Mud1412 in Having a hard time differentiating between Spotify and tidal hi-fi by Not-Icarus

Always tell what you mean by 320kbps. Because old MP3 encoded by Bladeenc or l3enc (for example) is pretty much easy to differentiate from FLAC. On the other side you have absolutely no chance to find difference between Opus 320kbps and FLAC. MP3 320 encoded by LAME (the most relatable variant) is somewhere in between - close to being transparent though.

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Longjumping-Mud1412 t1_j9spmeh wrote

I’ve never even caught a whisper that there was different types of 320kbps, I’ll look into it more in the morning, thank you for the info

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minecrafter1OOO t1_j9t7dhy wrote

There are different types of audio codecs like mp3 aac opus wav flac and many more. The kbps is the bit rate of the codec. More bitrate, better qaulity. Mp3 at 128kbps sounds pretty bad while opus at 128 sounds near lossless. Flac is lossless so that means there is no loss in the audio file.

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