320Kbps CBR with LAME just a V0 with the bit rate capped to 320k for all frames It doesn't have quality tuning that V3 ~ V0 have. Pretty sure VBR mode actually abuses the bit reservoir allowing up to 580kbps but the decoders thinks It seeing a 320kbps frame. Also I've noticed that with both Helix 5.1.1 ~ 5.1.2 & LAME when set to 48KHz SOX(max quality) it legit helps with pre echo triggering content.
, I do think it's worth noting that Apple chose AAC when it first set up the iTunes Store because AAC is open-source and at the time mp3 was not. (And to my knowledge AAC was/is just as good or better at equivalent bitrates.)
Big +1 to this. Storing music in FLAC vs. MP3 makes good sense. It's like "why keep your negatives when you have these good prints"? I don't know, in case you want to make more prints? Maybe you can't easily see /hear the difference, but I don't like throwing away perfectly good information without a good reason.
Hydrogenaudio gets mad at the thought of Lossy audio at from 192 ~ 256kbps hence LAME & Musepack dev's gave up being active there. As threads would just turn into "Use lossless" then just locked before you can say anything.iTunes does play MP3.
When we were talking about lossy bit rates 96kbps or 128kbps etc three decades ago then AAC probably did sound better than MP3 at those lossy bit rates.
But bandwidth is better and drive space is cheap. Anything in the realm of 150kbps and better probably sounds transparent. And LAME at V3 (the worst variable bit rate setting) is probably transparent for 99% of recorded files and even if there was a difference, the listener probably won’t be able to tell which file he prefers. I choose V2 because it’s one step up and an additional “level of assurance” of complete transparency.
For those anal retentive, any time you rip a CD in standard fashion, you are introducing ERRORS from the CD-ROM’s misread of data from the optical CD. The only way out is to use an error-free reader when converting to wav (Exact Audio Copy).
Hmm.... can't complain about my lil' BT transmitter that I use on the go. Fat chance that I can hear the compression in a noisy bus/city anyway. :'D
Well, if you want to store your CD-collection on a storage in the cloud, to have it accessible wherever you happens to be in the world, then donwloading or streaming over the internet can still be an cost related issue.My understanding is that aptX does increase the bluetooth latency. Not an issue when just listening to pure audio/music but annoying when you are watching a video.
With drive space cheap, lossless storage is not an issue like it was when I recall paying 400 dollars for a 100 gigabyte hard drive in the prehistoric ages when I first started ripping CD’s. As a poor student, $ savings on hard disks was a major factor.
When I first started with digital audio for broadcasting, a 4GB drive was a full 5 1/4" bay, and cost around £2000!!! This was 1992/3, and we couldn't believe that it was possible to get 4,000,000,000 bytes in something we could hold in our hands. Floppy drives were 1MB, and hard-drives in PCs were around 40MB. GB drives were almost science-fiction.My understanding is that aptX does increase the bluetooth latency. Not an issue when just listening to pure audio/music but annoying when you are watching a video.
With drive space cheap, lossless storage is not an issue like it was when I recall paying 400 dollars for a 100 gigabyte hard drive in the prehistoric ages when I first started ripping CD’s. As a poor student, $ savings on hard disks was a major factor.
Easy to solve: Just use a video player that allows for manual audio-delay settings.
I'm not sure it's better or worse. LAME's psychoacoustic filter appears to be more cautious below 16KHz, only omitting noise between strong harmonics. That's what I highly prefer. Helix appears to pull a lot from 12-16KHz, and does more noise filtering below 12KHz. Whether that's audible or not, I'm not sure. Do what makes you happy. I'm sticking with LAME V0 for my car and FLAC on my home network.
And here I thought I was the only one! After all these years I still haven’t found anything better than iTunes for getting music onto my iPhone.
How can you type so much wrong information? Like audiophiles who claim that Apple invented AAC.
AAC reader in DeltaWave will use the available Windows decoder, so likely that's the culprit.