Re: Opus killer @128 kbps
Reply #1 –
Would you mind trying --bitrate 140?
(I have 2 tracks I care about which I can't really ABX at --bitrate 128 with 'reasonable effort', but I repeatedly got at 6/8. Too low a safety margin for my taste. Using --bitrate 140 I get real random ABX results.)
The wiki recommendation isn't wise in this respect to me either. We have seen in another thread that --bitrate 80 yields results which are fine usually. Even --bitrate 64 is very usable for a good quality. And if someone wants a setting which is fine also in rare situations -- bitrate 128 isn't a bad choice, but a somewhat higher bitrate maybe useful. What an exact bitrate to use depends on personal preference and personal judgement about those tracks requiring a higher bitrate (relevance and quality wise).
I'd prefer a recommendation for good quality music which reads like 64 ... 160 kbps. (OK, the wiki table is meant to provide a start-off, but I'm not sure whether everybody reads this. Even for a start-off the lowest recommended bitrate should be 80 kbps rather than 96 IMO).