Re: Vorbis better than opus?
Reply #65 – 2024-03-10 08:12:08
Determining which codec is generally better, based on personal experience only, can lead to leveling out the differences between them after conducting a listening test in a nursing home. A burger from McDonald's can satisfy your hunger, just like a home-cooked meal, but the technologies used to facilitate mass production can be harmful in the long run, which neither your tongue nor your stomach will tell you right away. Lossy encoding is about making an approximate copy of the original that is convincing enough, but satisfaction does not mean that everyone stops being interested in what they have lost. Unfortunately, such interest is more often met here with ridicule or a superficial reply like “inaudible therefore useless”, which distinguishes Hydrogen from, for example, Gearspace . Try cutting off the high frequencies that you don't need sharply, say above 16 kHz (obviously, using Butterworth filter with a slope of 72 dB/octave), and you'll find that the remaining frequencies that you hear are affected in a questionable way. Some people tolerate and even enjoy porn, which is also an approximation (of intimate relationships), but the possible consequences can harm your well-being, so consider spreading the awareness instead of “it's up to your skin flute ears”.
• Join our efforts to make Helix MP3 encoder great again • Opus complexity & qAAC dependence on Apple is an aberration from Vorbis & Musepack breakthroughs • Let's pray that D. Bryant improve WavPack hybrid, C. Helmrich update FSLAC, M. van Beurden teach FLAC to handle non-audio data