-=> On 03-16-19 23:09, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 AA> I always wondered.. isn't all the audio at YT restricted/limited to 128
 AA> Kbps tops?   Most of the time 128 Kbps mp3's are fine in the car or

It is compressed with AAC.  Don't know the bitrate.  It's acceptable for casual
listening on portable devices, which is all I'd be doing with it.  Certainly
not as good as CD quality.  But my ffmpeg script (actually a Windows .bat file)
at least doesn't do a second conversion cycle when stripping the audio.  It
just takes the already encoded audio and saves it to a .aac file.

 AA> other  noisy environments.  But I find that 128 Kbps tunes converted to
 AA> audio CD sound terrible when I need a collection to play in my standard
 AA> hi fi CD player.  Ever hear of the term "listening fatigue" when CDs
 AA> first came out?  That's the same thing I experience (plus of other
 AA> noticeable differences) when I play CDs created with 128Kbps originals.
 AA>  There's a kind of "edgyness" in the sound that gets more and more
 AA> annoying and uncomfortable.

Yes, it's not going to be so great for hifi listening.  That's when you need
the CD, or better still, an uncompressed (or losless compressed) audio file at
96k sampling rate or better.


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