What lossy codec do you use

[Drone/doom]

I mainly stick with Lame MP3 at V1(224kb/s VBR) since i can't tell.

 

[Soniclife]

LAME -V 4 in the car.

 

[solderdude]

For lossy: Lame MP3 (HQ) 320 CBR or VBR-0 since I can enjoy music in this format equally well as in FLAC or WAV and allows me to put double or 3 times as much songs on a player with limited memory space.
Checks for updates now and then but haven't seen any updates for a long time already.
My 'better quality' recordings are in lossless format.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

None.

 

[Berwhale]

LDAC between my Note 9 and ES100.

 

[doctorjuggles]

Ogg Vorbis - used to use mp3 but there are too many issues with gapless playback that are often hard to know about until it's too late

 

[Newk Yuler]

dBpoweramp high rate MP3 and AAC. Love that software and the way it integrates with Windows.

 

[digititus]

For portable useage - Ogg Vorbis 320. Good balance between quality sound in a noisy environment and space saving over FLAC.

 

[bravomail]

I mainly stick with Lame MP3 at V1(224kb/s VBR) since i can't tell.

AAC 320 ABR. I tested Opus (320kbps), Lame MP3 (320 CBR) and AAC in Foobar2000 (from WAV). The composition is Hush by Deep Purple. Tested with my ears and Modi3/Magni2 pair attached to PC Windows 10. AAC won. So m4a files for me.
Problem is - I can tell the difference in this particular song. It has heavy guitar distortions. You can choose any other song with similar heavy guitar distortions (Van Halen for example) - I just think those are the only songs which will push the codecs to their limits. Pop music and esp classical music are not that demanding.

 

[amirm]

With unlimited mobile plan, I just stream everything from Amazon with my phone which is MP3 over Bluetooth to my head unit in the car. Otherwise all lossless .flac files.

 

[maty]

Ogg Vorbis -q9 (320 kbps) to my phone. With AoTuV. From foobar2000.

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=AoTuV

http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-oggenc.php

BTW, if the source is 24/96 (usually vinyl rip) -> Ogg Vorbis make 16/96 !

 

[Julf]

Lame 320 k MP3 in car and on phone, because my 20-year-old car stereo doesn't support anything else.

 

[Julf]

BTW, if the source is 24/96 (usually vinyl rip) -> Ogg Vorbis make 16/96 !

Why would you record vinyl ("rip" usually means copying digital data) in 24/96? All you need is 16/48 (and even that is ample).

 

[q3cpma]

Vorbis q5 here. Opus is better, but more battery intensive, at least without SIMD, and its Replaygain spec is a massive mess (no peak and strange header/tag gain situation).

Why would you record vinyl ("rip" usually means copying digital data) in 24/96? All you need is 16/48 (and even that is ample).

You'll regret your move.

 

[Patrick1958]

Nero codec CBR aac 512 kbps for phone. Flac for daps.

 

[KozmoNaut]

Opus at 128kbps, and LAME -V 0 for anything that doesn't support Opus.

 

[Thomas savage]

MQA , it's the best lossy , it's special lossy as you get extra even though you lose stuff.

Makes perfect sense to me, it's just like my underpants with holes in.. the lossy pants give you extra.

 

[RayDunzl]

I don't know.

Whatever the Cable company ships their programming with.

The Ibiquity HDRadio codec.

Whatever YouTube uses.

For actual listening just regular old lossy CDs.

 

[digitalfrost]

I have a lot of MPC (Musepack) from the old days.

Nowadays, only LAME -V3 for the phone. V3 mainly because it's much less prone to bitrate increase due to high frequency content related to the sfb21 issue.

 

[BillG]

Neroaac q 0.95 which outputs a *.m4a at an average of 380 kbps and *.mp3 at 320 kbps...