Re: Do you set different bitrates for different genres of music?
Reply #6 – 2018-06-10 05:18:59
I am using 128k only because opus wiki says 128k is "pretty" transparent, for me such an assurance is enough for me. You can't go wrong with Opus @ 128kbps. To quote the wiki page on Opus.... 48kbps = "nice sound, may have problems with cymbals" 64kbps = "nice sound, detectable differences to original" 96kbps = "approaching transparency" 128kbps = "Very close to transparency" 160-192kbps = "Transparent with very low chance of artifacts (a few killer samples still detectable)" so given that info the sweet spot is between 96-128kbps, especially when used on portable devices where you likely won't be in some optimal listening environment etc. that's why I think most people will prefer either 96kbps or 128kbps. anything over 160-192kbps is overkill and I would probably avoid anything under 64kbps unless your very limited on storage space. p.s. I left off 32kbps, as while that's not bad for the bit rate, I can't really see many situations where one will need to go THAT low on the bit rate for quality sake.So do you use different bit rates for different genres? Different for each album? If so please list them. If one wants to nitpick that might be a option (I would not know the details though), but if your mainly concerned with sound quality and don't want to overthink things just use 96kbps or 128kbps or 160kbps and forget about it. but I will say if you got some music your not too concerned with having more of the higher tier sound, and want to shave some file size, 64kbps is a option. so I guess a lot of that boils down to what kind of storage space your got to work with whether bit rates lower than 96kbps are worth considering or not. p.s. I have been using the 64kbps setting for some of my less important music even though I typically use 96kbps and between those two I pretty much got my collection to fit onto a 8GB MicroSD card (about 3,000 songs at the moment) with about 500MB or so free storage space left on it. so depending on how large ones collection is etc, you can still get plenty of music on 8GB of storage space with the 64kbps and 96kbps combo. hell, if I had to use 64kbps exclusively to squeeze even more songs onto that 8GB MicroSD card I would probably not complain overall. come to think of it, I might play around with 32kbps/48kbps/64kbps/96kbps just to see if I can notice any obvious differences on the setup I use for portable music which is Hauwei y336-a1 phone with Sony MDR-NC7 headphones as it's possible I may be able to use a lower bit rate than is generally needed in which case ill have room to breathe if I ever need to re-rip my FLAC music to lower bit rate Opus especially given v1.3 should be released very soon which apparently made improvements in the 48kbps and lower bit rates.