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MP3 / Re: Low bitrate MP3 (+ unsupported bitrates)
Last post by jaybeee -Or is this for some project you're working on to create low bitrate audio that is acceptable for the project?
If it's the former then I cannot understand why you'd want to go so low with the bitrate when the audio is clearly so much worse than the lossless source; i.e. it is not transparent at all and unless one has a hearing issue (maybe you have?), then it seems nonsensical to me.
I have some aac music audio files that were encoded by someone else at ~64kbps and they sound very good for such a low bitrate (the excellence of modern codecs at low bitrates shines). But for personal listening (via my mobile using headphones and also connected in my car) I use Apple aac (qaac) with (T)VBR q64 which aims for 128kbps. But I dare say aiming for 64kbps for me would be acceptable in the car for instance.
Of course, there's no issues in discussing this desire for such low bitrates in an mp3 for example and it's an interesting subject. I'm just confused as to why - if it is indeed for music listening pleasure - you'd want to go so low when you'd almost certainly be able to ABX between it and the source lossless files... and between say even 64kbps mp3s and aacs.