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Topic: Why is this song's bitrate so high? (Read 2994 times) previous topic - next topic
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Re: Why is this song's bitrate so high?

Reply #1 –
Because of its spectrum.
"I hear it when I see it."

Re: Why is this song's bitrate so high?

Reply #2 –
Because Opus has tonality estimation.
Low-delay codecs tend to perform poorer in the tonal music contents.
So opus decided to boost bitrates to hide the artifacts.

More details:
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/opus/demo3.shtml