Re: Compressing Lossless to Lossy - Codec Recommendations ?
Reply #53 – 2017-05-07 07:33:22
More reason not to use archaic formats at bloated bitrates, ..... ?? Case's 8.5 h test shows a battery usage of 7% vs. 9%. IgorC's test also shows the irrelevance of looking at battery life when deciding upon a codec. And these are the only hard facts given here concerning battery life. I think other than for very special reasons (which a particular person might have) nobody has to really care aboutstorage space battery life sound quality (as long as Opus, AAC, Vorbis, mp3, mpc are used with one of the well-known encoders at an appropriate bitrate setting) device support The device support may be the most crucial decision factor, but at least in the near future it is not a limiting factor for most people. As long as a lossless archive is available and one is willing to reencode this can never be a problem for the future. So what we usually see is people figthing for their personal preferences:folks from the dont-waste-any-bit group opt for codecs like Opus or AAC used with low to moderate bitrates folks from the dont-give-away-any-quality group opt for using rather high bitrates folks with a conservative attitude opt for codecs which have shown up well in the past (also if many, many years in the past) folks with a progressive attitude opt for codecs which have shown up well recently (and/or are technically interesting at present) or at least for codecs which are still under development None of them is wrong, they are all right. Everybody does his choice according to his nature. We can always find arguments for our personal preferences, but we should not think they are valid for other people. So as for the OP's question: I think nobody has given here a strong reason not to use mpc at moderate to high bitrates. I think the most relevant argument to be considered by the OP is whether he wants to use a codec which is to be considered exotic. This might be a problem in the future under the aspect of device support. Not a problem when willing to reencode from a lossless archive as said before.