Popular Post jriver Posted November 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2020 On 11/16/2020 at 5:20 PM, sandyk said: Nevertheless, most DAWs do not generate direct .flac for consumer consumption. I am unsure how HDTracks get their .flacs these days though, (IIRC, JRiver used to play a part there?) but they are only tiny fish in the ocean. As for .mp3 , this is mainly relegated these days to unenlightened individuals who don't realise that .flac is much better, can have similar small file sizes , and is lossless. Neither can I imagine the Record companies wanting to pay royalties to use .mp3 JRiver provided a downloader for HDTracks, but wasn't involved in conversion to FLAC. We can convert, but we didn't do it for HDTracks. MP3 requires no royalties now. It's public domain. sandyk and The Computer Audiophile 2 Jim Hillegass / JRiver Media Center / jriver.com Link to comment
manueljenkin Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Junilabs audio player has a file optimizer and it sounds very good. I got this recommended by @pompon . Link to comment
damian101 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 On 11/17/2020 at 12:34 AM, Miska said: That is unfortunately the majority (Amazon Music etc)... Or as much AAC these days (Apple Music) which does a bit better job. And then Vorbis (Spotify) which is similar to MP3. In what way is Vorbis more similar to MP3 than AAC is? In my listening comparisons, libvorbis tended to be slightly preferable to FDK-AAC, using quality vbr modes. Both are far superior to any MP3 encoder. The Apple AAC encoder is supposedly a bit better than FDK-AAC. I would expect AAC to have more similarities with MP3 internally than Vorbis has. Link to comment
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