Different audio quality on different music platforms

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  1. ArticStorm

    ArticStorm Moderator Staff Member

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    the only acceptable bitrate for MP3 is 320, everything below poeple can hear easy.

    for AAC, OPUS, etc the limits are way lower, since they compress/ encode better than mp3, which is at this point a very old format already.

    the filter is applied at around 18.x most of the time. Due to how music was engineered, everything upwards doesnt seem to have any new information, but this also means the Highend of the recording is touched and thats what you can see in spectrogram, that highend information is missing, slightly shelved.
     
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    ArticStorm, Feb 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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  2. xorome

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    People will download lossless WAVs at 300MiB a pop and then listen to them on their €6 Bluetooth earbuds that re-encode to SBC for wireless transfer :dunno:
     
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