• ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Mp3s from YT are garbage quality, it’s double transcoding from YT’s already low quality input.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. If you’re gonna be downloading music from youtube, might as well just torrent flac or at least 320kbps quality instead.

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      1 year ago

      You can download audio from YouTube as 160kbps opus files, which aren’t lossless sure but it’s the highest quality you can get from YouTube if alternate means aren’t an option.

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        1 year ago

        And that’s trusting that whoever uploaded the track had a good quality source. And it’s still double encoded.

        • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Well if you save the opus or aac it’s only single lossy compression, not double unless the uploader used a lossy file as their input. But if that was the case, ripping mp3 would be triple lossy compression…

        • Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Any official uploads from recent years are going to be just fine. And if not then maybe their spotify upload is broken too

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          For mp3 sure, but for opus standards 160kbps is great. I read that 128kbps is generally considered the most you need but 160kbps smooths over any artifacts, assuming the source file doesn’t have them.

      • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Then you probably don’t know any better because the vast majority of YT uploads are terrible quality. If you have anywhere near decent headphones/earbuds you can hear the difference immediately.

        • krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 year ago

          Well I’ve used spotify with and without headphones on popular phones, I can’t tell the difference from youtube. I usually download the music directly from the original uploader.