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lewiscanon
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Joined: Mar, 2015
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 Posted - 2017/03/25 : 09:07:55
Hi Guys,
Here is a question I have just thought as ma folks are having a house conversion I am going through some music & films I wanna keep. I am currently backing up music I wanna listen ir may wanna listen in the near future I am using the Windows Media Players rip features & when I choose mp3 & 320kbps fir optimum quality, here is ma question whit is the difference between the other 8 formats?
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Elipton
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Posted - 2017/03/25 : 10:32:02
Mp3, for all intents and purposes is much more universally compatible. WMA has conversion issues on mobile phones (such as android), WAV inflates the file size. AU is highly compressed for Unix systems. The list can go on and on and on.
Just do MP3 for the best quality/file size ratio. When it comes to headphone music, It's exactly what you need. If you play out or have plenty of storage space, 16b wave is perfect for it's uncompressed media.
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lewiscanon
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Posted - 2017/03/25 : 11:38:17
quote:
Originally posted by Elipton:
Mp3, for all intents and purposes is much more universally compatible. WMA has conversion issues on mobile phones (such as android), WAV inflates the file size. AU is highly compressed for Unix systems. The list can go on and on and on.
Just do MP3 for the best quality/file size ratio. When it comes to headphone music, It's exactly what you need. If you play out or have plenty of storage space, 16b wave is perfect for it's uncompressed media.
Ty Bud fir the info ye just shared I was curious I was seeing Flac in google searches & was curious ti wondering whit is the best audio format ti go fir when it comes ti quality (Y) ;) Hope ye have a good weekend bud!
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Samination
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Posted - 2017/03/26 : 07:35:00
For best compatibility and overall accessibility: MP3 (frauenhofer or lame codec), preferbly max bitrate at CBR320kb. I've seen talks about VBR v0 or any tweaked VBR settings are better, but I have to yet to see that (so, you can save up to a MB of data, but have fun trying to playback a with a corrupted MP3 with VBR if you dont know how to fix the stream).
For backup and overall quality: FLAC. Lossless, but not as large as WAV, but still bigger than MP3. The lack of support from mayor hardware developers is sad though. ALAC is a good alternativ for Apple product users. FLAC and ALAC is prefered over WAV since you can, based on Codec standards, add information tags on FLAC and ALAC. (You can add tags to WAV aswell, but it's not a standard so it's not certain media players will accept those. Worst case scenario would be having an unplayable track)
For best compression but containing as much quality as possible: OGG. Lossy version of FLAC. Bitrates can go up to ~500kbps. Same problems with compatibility as FLAC.
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ViolonC
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Germany
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Posted - 2017/03/26 : 12:30:42
What Sam said.
-> FLAC. All players that can't play flac should be avoided anyway. File size shouldn't be an issue today except for streaming. If it really is the apple formats or ogg are the best solutions.
If you're a DJ be aware that that most of the older players can play non of the above. Then it's mp3 320kbs.
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