Audio File Formats - MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- What's the difference between common audio file formats like MP3, AAC, WAV, and FLAC?
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the editing pleases me greatly
Electric Dennis for the win
I know, right?
It's things like this that make videos great
really? i don't know why but when you see him in videos with all his qwerks he almost seems like he would be inept at pretty much anything, example of not judging a book by its cover i guess?
too much effort was put into it
It's Taran that does the heavy work really.
downloading music and it’s a .exe
*seems legit*
basically your pfp
What's the worst that could happen, LOL
@@ricardo4943-k6b Same. Manjaro here :)
I always save my stuff as a WAV. Idk why, just works better with my editing
Rename it to .mp3
boom solved
0:41 - *LOSSY Compression*
...MP3
....AAC
.....OGG
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2:38 - *LOSSLESS Compression* _music_
...FLAC
....ALAC
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3:55 - *LOSSLESS Compression* _movies _
...Dolby True HD
....DTS HD
.....Dolby Atmos
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4:30 - *UNcompressed*
...WAV
....AIFF
Thanks
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What is meaning of lossy and lossless compression?
@@mdask4810 Lossy compression works by discarding data and lossless compression works by grouping data instead of letting them be like that, expect it like JPEG and PNG, and for uncompressed, expect it like BMP
What about m4a?
The human ear can't hear more than 30fps.
Ben Boyder Ha, joke's on you guys, I can see at 320 kb!
Welef Al Haj Saleh But... but... i can hear green... Does that count?
Ben Boyder By any chance, are you being fed console propaganda?
Jumpier Wolf eh my potato walks better than these... consoles you speak of. Can your "console" run Internet Explorer at 0.1 fps?
You idiot peace of shit, go see a doctor, what kind of stupid thing is human ear can't hear 30 fps. Really, i mean 30 fps and human ear. Its not 30 fps but 24 fps cinematic audio
I have crippling compression
Mats Mokkenstorm me too!
Mats Mokkenstorm I have osteoporosis
feminist: i have crippling oppresion
I have Stereoporosis
I've crplng cprsn
Human legs can't hear more than 8GB of ram
Too many notes.
@@AlfiesFuntime r/woooosh
@@AlfiesFuntime r/woooosh
@@AlfiesFuntime Arms cannot support more than 8 Mb of music, which means the spleen cannot interpret the Wav. file :P
@@AlfiesFuntime Just me being moronic ;P Don't mind my antics.
The "old" MP3 player that they show is actually a current lossless model, FIIO X3-II which also works as DAC and it plays everything you throw at it.
DAC sound
how big is your DAC
@@kipchickensout it ain't floppy, that's for sure
@@nerd2544 are you saying you a have a 3.5" hard disk?
@@Mpivovitz nah mine is 8 inches 😎 old drives from the 90s :^)
Linus doing dubstep, I need that gif.
"Linus doing dubstep"
no comment
"dubstep"
*...*
It's trap my good friend.
It's trap. Dirty Audio m8
CaptainRetaliate - iOS Gameplays! Alien cookies my dude
Uploaded it 2 years ago on 9gag, 9gag.com/gag/aDwLR97?ref=android.s
source vid = "Tweeters, woofers and subwoofers" if I am not mistaken
*_just make everything an .exe_*
Apple uses .dmg
Linkin_park_numb.exe
Isn't that a video format? 🤔
@@ВадимБаев-с9в video format lmao
ha ha ha. No!
.deb instead! :)
MP3's patent expired recently in the US, and it have been patent free since 2012 in the EU. Get them facts straight Luke :b
Morten Larsen I'd say that this was recorded before that became fact in the US, but even I'm not sure. If it is, blame the slow editing process.
So true. Just to add, AC3 is also about to expire ... if I'm not mistaken the last patent will expire within maybe 2-3 months.
Also, kinda sucks that Opus wasn't mentioned (lossy codec better than all three lossy codecs mentioned)
Morten Larsen my first thought
No, they did not do proper research.
The MP3 patent owners terminated patents on April:
www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html
This www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_MP3_MPEG-2_H_264/ was around for a while now, this www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/mp3_dies_nobody_noticed/ was published 5 days before video posting,
Anton Bershanskiy it's possible that this video was made a while ago ;)
AAC should be standard rather than mp3 if it offers higher quality at lower bitrate. In a lot of cases, it would result in smaller filesize while maintaining similar or higher quality than its mp3 counterpart.
It's probably based around an algorithm that cuts out less data, so even if it's better quality at a lower bitrate the relative size will be about the same. That said mp3 is shit, it's popular becouse it was already popular and majority of people listen to music on a 2 dollar headphones and don't even know the difference between sound file formats. If you do have like a entry level auudiphile sound system you should be able to tell about 7-8/10 sound formats of your music just by listening.
@@wujekcientariposta so if mp3 is shit, what Isn't?
*No* lossy format should be standard. Why would you want the standard for audio files to sound like shit? I understand the need for lossy formats like MP3... *Twenty Years Ago* ... There is no need for crap formats like that these days when storage space is so inexpensive.
The standard should be lossless. FLAC for those that want small file size. WAV for original content.
@@janX9 I have a FLAC album that is 500mb, I have the same album on 320kbps MP3 and it is 49mb....with a 1tb hard drive dedicated to only music I could store 2,000 FLAC albums or 20,000 MP3 albums...alot of people have data caps, either on their phone or ISP...if you were to stream your home library...it's much less efficient to stream FLAC, or even download FLAC....It's the same reason I have a 4k tv but stream netflix in 1080p...people have different internet speeds and hard drive space...having options is always better than limiting things to the superior format.
@@Iwetbeds that's a good point.
Anyone else notice that the 'Old MP3 player' stock image is actually a pretty recent audiophile Fiio which is capable of playing FLAC?
it is more than recent i think it is fiio x1 or x3ii , one of those , I own the x3ii variant sounds amazing..
I just posted a comment about that. They rick rolled us again... Also, FiiO is releasing a 3rd gen of the X3 and it should be in stores in the next week or 2 as they get to retailers. Not to sound like an ad, but I might buy one. The audio from my S5 absolutely sucks.
JEdit23 yeah it's fiio x1 ..I have the same black..I use them with fiio ex1 earphones and it's heaven in my ears. Fiio us definitely one of the best brands for audiophiles out there.
I love that player. It sounds very good and you can find them at a pretty decent price.
I have been playing clarinet for 10 years and I am currently getting a degree in music. Listening to music and training my ears is kind of my job and something I love to do regardless of having to do it for school. I will go to the far corners of the internet if it means finding high quality FLAC files of music I am looking for, because even though I use an iPhone (which cannot officially use FLAC even though iOS 11 technically supports it and will play it if you use a workaround), it means I have archives and am future proofing.
I personally, even with my trained ear, cannot necessarily discern a difference between a FLAC file and the same track converted to a 320Kbps MP3. My high-quality Sennheiser headphones plugged into my Marantz receiver helps a lot with making nitpicks, but considering I do most of my music listening in the car over Bluetooth or CarPlay anyway, it makes absolutely no difference to me. HOWEVER, I check to make sure my music is not peaking (distorting at certain points) before converting. In my experience, even music I have ripped off of CDs myself using Exact Audio Copy have points where they peak. So, when I am converting to MP3, I am not just making the file smaller to more conveniently fit on my phone, I am also making it the way I want using a lossless version as a base so I am not making edits to something that has already lost data. I may not be able to tell the difference between FLAC and 320Kbps MP3, but I can tell the difference between 320Kbps and 128Kbps. You may not be able to tell and that's okay; it doesn't mean you have a bad taste in music or anything like that--your ears are probably just not as trained as others who are musically trained or listen to music as a hardcore hobby (or you use crappy Apple headphones. Stop that).
Also, in the future, who knows if MP3 will be relevant anymore? Maybe FLAC will become a relevant format for the general public, or maybe a better format than MP3 will get into the mainstream--who knows. As long as I have a collection of lossless music, I can convert it to essentially whatever I want.
even as someone who isn't even a professional but appreciates music I can confirm 128kbps sucks ass
This
The app “AudioShare” that’s available on the iOS store supports and plays FLAC files and also converts them to wav ect.
I'm a 16 year old tubist, and I have to say that when it comes to differentiating between audio files I'm pretty good. Listening to high quality audio through high quality headphones sounds amazing, but it makes it harder to notice the difference in audio quality. Listening through my shoddy razer headset however, really showcases the difference. It doesn't sound better. They sound bad, but it becomes was easier to tell because the high quality audio tends to sound worse because the headphones try to process all the information and they just can't. But I'd rather not be able to tell the difference than hate the experience.
Thats pretty gay
I'm glad this video exists. Ever since the introduction of MP3 to the market, it has turned music quality into garbage. And I was even more sad when I was hearing radio stations actually play mp3 files like if the FM interference was not bad enough.. smh!
If any of you have ever heard a low bitrate MP3 through surround sound speakers will understand that the sound instead of having a nice smooth reverb, it sounds all gibberish and noisy. Especially when listening to music with crisp high hats like Metal or Rock music. Mp3, lacks quality in that regard although I must say, using a proper encoder, sometimes it's hard to distinguish between 320kbps Mp3 or WAV / FLAC. But from a producer standpoint when using effects and what not, Mp3 or other lossy formats should be avoided at all costs. Mp3 is the equivalent to JPG whereas FLAC / WAV is the equivalent to PNG / BMP.
I can understand back in the day when memory was low and expensive, it was a viable option to store music in mp3 or other lossy format, but nowadays with Terrabyte hard drives, MP3 should be dead. I am currently trying to locate every single song I ever downloaded in FLAC or WAV for optimum sound reproduction.
Bro, I’m in the same boat lol. Getting rid of those nasty MP3’s. Such a joy to rediscover songs in top quality.
renaming a .mp3 audio to .wav in a paste improves the quality or you need to download the audio as .wav?
@@mglzyn
Lol. Renaming an mp3 to wav and expecting a change in quality is like renaming an Indian woman to Samantha and expecting her to be American.
That’s not how it works.
Once a file is in mp3, the quality will always be mp3. It’s like taking a beautiful clean sheet of paper (wav), and crumble it up (mp3). No matter how much you try to smooth out the creases, the paper will never be as smooth.
thanks so much for this teached me a lot man😂
@@Bassotronics one more question, so does this mean the only perfect quality audio files of a song would be the original .wav version? any other ones have been compressed?
Talk about HEIF pls!
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Techquickies: I'm gonna ignore that.
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humans cant hear more than 30cps (cowbell per second)
techquickie's memes are getting pretty lit fam.
I have some input: For very low bitrate audio, I recommend using opus (with .ogg container), it sounds MUCH better than AAC at bitrates around or below 64kbits/s. In fact, the audio is listenable all the way down to 16kbps!
Is that why my friends on Discord sound so good at 64 kbits/s?
@@xFanexx_yes
alr time to add that to my list of codecs not to use so i can have the worst audio quality
*Turns off Adblock.
Has to watch a 4 and a half minute long fricken ad....
*WTF RUclips*
Just refresh the page a couple times
ZincNut O shit a fellow Sly Cooper profile picture
Usually there's a button called Skip Ad dumbo
PotatoTalks Sometimes there are no "skip ad" button
TheyArePunishingYou
audiophile formats
audiophile porn*
so.. FLAC...
Why FLAC when you can WAV
Francis M because if you're just listening, FLAC accomplishes the same with much less storage used.
But m8, the mp3 decay
Even if Linus isn't the main speaker in the video, you can't escape the Linus
:)
GNU/Linux.
flac for storing the music long term, convert into whatever file format your player requires. Nothing sounds as bad as multiple lossy compression algorithms applied after each other…
.ape for storing music long term. about 10% smaller filesize for the same(lossless) quality.
TabalugaDragon It depends on the source.
This guy gets it
Exactly. I used to rip with windows media player. I ripped everything into WMA lossless. So glad I did, I since re-encoded to FLAC.
"Their library is full of 128 kbps rips from RUclips" 😫 ughhh, I felt thaaaaat. Thanks for the video. I had a basic understanding of mp3, wav, and lossy and lossless files, but I did not know everything that you talked about. ^_^
RUclips uses aac at 128 kb. If you download from this site use this preset to avoid conversion and make your music sound worse... or download from those polish flac libraries lol, they have everything mainstream
@@licenciadoleopoldocanoloza1144 wdym by Polish flac libraries?
@@RB-83 piracy flacs from polish pages
.flac master race !!!!1!!
Guy Berryman No, DSD master race.
Guy Berryman where you buy flac files btw?
There's no difference between FLAC and DSD in Audio Quality.
Camilo Nieto Only place I know of is Bandcamp.
There are some stores like acoustic sounds that offer FLAC files straight from the master (so basically anything from 41khz, 16bit all the way up to 96khz, 24bit in my experience), but in most uses, FLAC is used to convert CD quality audio (41khz, 16bit) to a smaller filesize. So basically, each album on your HDD isn't 700mb but more like 450mb (depends on the track contents.) Audio enthusiasts do this not only to save space (removing redundant data, as stated in this video) but it also keeps all the original audio there from the CD. Also, FLAC is very popular on many pirate sites, hence its free codec status.
midi master race
interrupt generator master race
nice >:]
fr tho if you find a good Melody you can save the song from mp3: 4mb to midi: 4kb
midi is not even a file it is an instruction to how to play the notes , hence the size ;)
CODandponies .ogg is life
.WAV - preserves nearly all of the quality as lossless. Great for music editing in precise manners.
.MP3 - sacrifices original quality but saves lots of space(around 1/3 of the original file.)
.FLAC & .ALAC - ALAC is for Apple. .FLAC is identical, but is more compatible and uses algorithms to predict sounds, therefore reducing file size with lossless quality.
.AAC - What
.OGG - ???? Linus doesnt even pronounce how its spelled.
👍 hopefully i took allot out of this video lil
MP3 compresses more than just 1/3 of the original file. The maximum bitrate of MP3 is 320 kbps. A CD quality WAV file is 1411 kbps. 320/1411 = 0,23 less, than 1/4. But if you use different bitrates (e.g. 256 or 192) you can save even more space. If you use a good MP3 encoder (e.g. LAME), then you are unlikely to hear any difference between a 192 kbps MP3 and the original WAV.
AAC stands for Advanced Audio Coding. At the same bitrate it gives better quality than MP3. iTunes offers music in AAC format. It is put into an MP4 container, so generally has the extension M4A.
Also you can hear the difference between 128kbps with 256kbps so I recommend to use the latter.
My sister works for .AFLAC. Really!
.wav preserves "nearly" all of the quality? No, it preserves 100% of the data it is given. If there is ANY data loss, it happened before the final conversion/exportation to WAV.
"LOSLESS COMPRESSION" 2:54
It sounds like *magic*
Always love how flac retards leave out the compression. Even funnier Mp3,flac,lossy/lossless are the same at any bitrate, they arint the original. bitrate isnt the same a bits . uncompressed wav playback is 1440MBps( 1400 MBps = 1400 Megabytes =11200000 Kbps flac/mp3 you need this bitrate to match the original) quality is pointless a 900kps lossless compressed flac has 1% of the songs data.
@@theprofilmstudios
LMAO yup!
That is the reason why he wrote "Losless Compression".
And the people above are too slow to see. LOL
WE NEED THE BASSHEAD LINUS 1 HOUR. NOW.
Better yet, 10 hours. lol jk.
@@TaskForce77 where is it?
@@TaskForce77 it's alright bro
I’m going to do it
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Speaking as a DJ/producer I have to say the following:
1. mp3 and AAC sucks for everything but stuck in a videocontainer, although I don't get why people crave for 8k video but neglect audio quality
2. ALAC will never be a real option (only mac)
3. WAV is fine when you need audio master copies of your music but does not work well with audioprograms and DJ gear
4. FLAC and OGG Vorbis are best for playing as long as it has enough kb/sec (if less than 550 it's probably crap, I go for 800 kbs)
Note: it's not because it says lossless that it actually is, you can go lower than mp3 if you wanted to.
Best practice for a digital music collection: save your ripped (official) cd's as wav (absolutely lossless) you now have a 'master_collection', after that you recode them to flac or ogg and save them to your actual play_collection. If one of your flac or ogg's get corrupt (they sometimes do) you go back to your master_collection and recode the track again. This way you won't lose your tracks.
I have strong doubts you can tell the difference between 400 and 500+kbps Vorbis...
@@gordonfreeman5958 yes I can, that's what happens when you train your ears well for 23 years.
I listen at 110 db with a crispy clear sennheiser headphone. My friends doubt it to but I proved them wrong. Fact is, they couldn't hear it but I can, probably because there are about 10000 people on the planet that have perfect expert hearing capabilities and I'm one of them unfortunatly. I say unfortunate because I have to run away from most installations because of their horrid sounds. Most sound systems are just aweful.
I used to do WMA lossless. Glad I did, knowing I lost nothing switching to FLAC. That's another huge advantage to storing your audio lossless. Flexibility.
Luke is better than Linus at this
Ak Mungroo ja
Also doesn't sound like he's high on helium either.
yeah, to me he explains stuff better, and he talks more clearly
*Luke is better at this than Linus
This minor change makes it more understandable. I had to read what you wrote three times to understand it.
@@gusjohnnson9641 Better at this than Linus, Luke is.
Regardless of what audio format is best, your ears are the best judge, I for one have a damn good ear and I can always tell if a song sounds like shit or not regardless of whether it's MP3 or WAV or whatever, don't put all your faith in the audio formats of your choice but put the faith in the listening experience with headphones on.
AAC is still best for lossy audio - It depends on person (kids can hear above 16KHz but older people cant hear 15KHz) - Maybe Bone Conduction is solution to restore hear at 16KHz)
KnightRiderKARR, it is not. Opus is better both in quality per bitrate, and in licensing.
It's not like there is any useful information up that high. It's such a low level, having to travel through air. To the microphone, then from a speaker to an ear. And it's not like the sounds up that high are at loud levels right at their source.
How much difference is there in 320 kbps MP3 & AAC? I didn't notice anything when I compared the same song in both formats, although 128 kbps is significantly poorer than 320 kbps
@@nachiketpargaonkar8646 I think aac preforms better at lower bit rates. I use 160k for music and they sound great on a $200 pair of Sony earbuds(wf-sp800n) and 2 JBL partybox 100 speakers
@@psp420bam
That is possible since AAC is considered lossless format & converting 320 kbps to 128 kbps involves much compression, the dynamic range reduces. Maybe the high quality earphones/headphones differentiate better in these.
I re-re-really liked the editing (and script) on this one :)
Nothing about Opus, which compresses better than almost any other format without quality loss, and which can now be played by most OSs now (phone or desktop). It’s even particularly good with voice, at *really* low bitrates.
What about Opus?
It is a not well known format (although it is the best). Earlier Android versions (e.g. Version 6) play it only if they have an OGG extension. I do not know if this has changed in newer Android versions. I use Foobar Mobile on my Android phone and it plays Opus perfectly.
@@pannonia77 According to Wikipedia, opus can now be played with the .opus extension natively on Windows 10 (≥1903) & Android (10). Mac & iOS require different containers than OGG, or something. Dunno, don’t care.
I love your calm approach to your subject!
256 Kbps MP3 for convenience whether I'm out driving somewhere or at home but, every so often, I like to sit down and have a more active listening experience with my cassettes and vinyl. It's less an "audiophile" thing and more just harmless nostalgia that helps me relax.
2:38 Some folks aren't satisfied... 😂
Didn't the patents on mp3 just expire? I remember seeing something about it being technically free software now.
Golden age of this channel
I really appreciate your concise information about the differences between audio codecs. Great stuff.
On a (redbook-compliant) CD, the audio isn't "typically" stored at 1411kbps, it's *always* stored at that: 2 channels, 16-bit samples taken 44100 times per second: (2x16)x44100=1411200.
And 128kbps YT rips? Nah, get on with the program, it's gotta be 128kbps YT rips of videos that have already been transcoded for the umpteenth time, for that extra digital glitchy juiciness! 1st generation upload rips, phooey!
Quick additional Info to aac - there is an "sub-format" called stems by "native instruments". It saves the song with normal aac BUT in 4x stereo for each instrument (drums, bass, synth/guitar, vocals/fx). Main usage is djaying - but in comes incredible close to flac/wav/aiff in my a-b tests.
320kb/s mp3s are the sweet spot for most music
With headphones yeah. When you use big speakers you can hear the noise of mp3. The best lossy in my opinion is aac at 288 with variable bit rate
@@licenciadoleopoldocanoloza1144 MP3 320 is indistinguishable to FLAC. Anyone who says they can tell the difference needs to be tested so we can prove them *Wrong!*
@@licenciadoleopoldocanoloza1144 At the moment, Opus takes the cake for best codec. Music sounds pretty good even at bitrates as low as 64 kbps, plus it is free and open source.
@@janX9 well, suit yourself pal, but spotify or mp3 sounds bad in speakers, mainly in rock. As i say, aac at 288 vbr sounds as flac/cd
@@licenciadoleopoldocanoloza1144 So you're telling me that *you* can tell the difference between FLAC and MP3 320? That's pretty impressive. Most people cannot tell the difference.
I'm not interested in lossy formats like AAC or MP3. FLAC is my codec of choice. I know that there are better codecs, but they aren't very practical.
1: Pick random file you wanna compress and rename to .wav
2: Compress using FLAC
3: Become the undisputed king of the file compression business
It’s that even posible?!!?!?! Like, does the original file lose something or stays the same??
Axel Steiner oh yea, makes sense :’/
If anyone is wondering the name of the song at 0:38, its called Alien Cookies by Dirty Audio
1:15 - those are some damn good albums 🤘🏼🤘🏼
heavy metal is the best genre ever existed.
@@nickpratyaksh Hell yeah \m/
FLAC is basically WAV but the silent parts are removed. In WAV, even the silent parts are stored as data that's why it has a fixed bit rate of 1411 kbps, whereas the FLAC has a variable bit rate that corresponds to the actual data only.
And now Apple is going to start supporting Dolby Atmos and ALAC for Apple Music, that's like the best news ever for Apple Audiophiles who before were limited by download means. Now we can get all the music in the best quality format with no issues and support artists without illegally downloading music.
*watches video*
*gets to ****0:37*
"Oh hey, Alien Cookies!"
Carisen I was searching for the comment about Alien Cookies😂👏
Honestly I think 128kbps MP3 is just barely my standard to enjoy the music. It's like eating junk food, but below 128 is like eating junk food dropped to the dusty road and you still eat it. Lately I've been storing FLAC and 320kbps for MP3, but the lowest is 160kbps.
90% of my playlist is ripped from RUclips.
get SMLoadr
RUclips does very strange things to audio... If you compare yt rips with pretty much anything else you‘ll notice the inferiour quality
I might have one or two songs out of the 1200 who are not form RUclips
Use Soulseek instead. You're welcome.
@@ILLEAGLExxx Is this the same as that virus filled limewire crap?
This is for the real audio files.
I have two copies of my audio files. I have one that has been ripped (dithered 24bit/88.2K if it is from vinyl) is stored in Flac. I used a multi-encoder to rip the same files to MP3 at the same time and use those when sending the files to my DAP, phone, or cloud storage for remote playback. That way, even if I have a house fire that takes out my entire Vinyl and CD collection, I still have a master copy of my collection on the master backup in the bank vault.
It may seem paranoid, but it took me hundreds of hours to catalog, rip, CDs, and catalog, record and edit my vinyl.
Who's here after apple music announcement of lossless music?
Never been able to tell the quality difference even when trying on high-end audio equipment. In real world scenarios, MP3 is the way to go for most use cases.
1:15 Iron Maiden, Metallica, Stratovarius, Iced Earth, Megadeth, Pantera, Hammerfall, Dream Theater, Mercyful Fate, Ozzy Osbourne, In Flames.
That is a big chunk of my teenage years right there 😁
1:15 nice selection! XD
heavy metal is the best genre ever existed.
From my experience as long as a track has a higher bitrate than 128kbps (although 160kbps can sometimes dip into crap territory) you won't notice any loss in quality. 192kbps means a pretty much perfect experience on most consumer-grade speakers and headphones, and 256/320 are for the perfectionist users who start to hyperventilate at the thought of any audible compression.
Long story short I only allow 192kbps mp3 or better in my iTunes library and am still experimenting with 128kbps AAC when exporting to my old iPods.
Your experience is consistent with reality. As a mixing engineer, it drives me up the wall when 'audiophiles' drone on and on and on about FLAC and vinyl.
Honestly, 192kbps is INDISTINGUISHABLE over a stereo pair of HS8s in a professionally-treated control room in a purpose built studio in double-blind tests.
192kbps MP3 is perfectly adequate.
1411Kbps not KBPS...
Kilo is represented by a lower case "k". A upper case "K" normally means Kelvin.
Lower case "b" means Bit and "B" means Byte.
I don't know if there is a official way to represent "per" other than "/" but mph for example uses a lower case "p". Upper case "P" probably works as well though.
And finally, a upper case "S" stands for Siemens (which is the derived unit of electric conductance, electric susceptance and electric admittance in the International System of Units (SI) - Wikipedia). Seconds are represented by a lower case "s".
Therefore KBPS would be (Kelvin * Bytes) / (Siemens)
kbps would be (kilo * bits) / second
Wargon *Kelvin*Bytes*Petasiemens
love that unit
Wargon (Bits*2^10)/second
320 mp3's are very popular compared to lossless because much less drive space is used, quicker to download, and to top it off they sound almost exactly the same
I think if your listing to music off your phone you shouldn't worry about what format it is. As long is there not 128kbs mp3s
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What about 128kbs ogg vorbis
@@parthnigam916 from what I read from Google there about the same quality. May I ask why you'd choose ogg vorbis over mp3?
This video has one of the best intros of Techquickie 😂
When explaining ALAC, you could've just said "The A stands for Apple"
@Esteban Outeiral Dias bruh it’s the same as flac😂
OK, but what program plays midi files?
Krešimir Jurilj Android can play them by default.
Windows Media Player too.
Remember that MIDI is "not really music"
The HammerFall CD at 1:15 made me more excited than it should have.
Can you do a hardware vs software raid. I've looked all over RUclips and the LTT forums and couldn't find anything
software and hardware are entirely different things
Fuzzy Lobster excellent idea 😃
Fuzzy Lobster u mean decoding?
-(CoolNinjaBroGuy)- i want to know what the speed differences are and if its worth getting a raid card
Isn't hardware RAID kind of dying off? I mean real RAID cards...not the basic stuff that's on consumer motherboards. I ditched it years ago.
well, I came here looking for a video to quickly explain audio formats to a friend, but I found the channel quite nice and I think I'll stay. learned a good thing myself too
TFW I have a tidal subscription
+1
ItsJosh18 same
ItsJosh18 makes us 4. but I would seriously cancel it if Google music had lossless
I feel so sorry for you bro.
What is TFW?
I like this editor :D he dossent let him self be controlled by the sosial construct :P
give that man some creeds !
This video combines good information, with a very nice presentation, those guys linustech are funny and tells you everything that you need without wasting your time or boring you with no sense information.
Human hearing is measured in Hz (20Hz-20kHz) not fps.
They are illiterates
Explain an M4A to me smart people
basically AAC
PhambletonMR can be .alac too :)
Stores more data than mp3 at lower bit rates. AKA mp3 has been obsolete for a long time.
AAC it's the codec, MP4 it's the container (and extension) that can include video, audio or subtitles, M4A it's the container (and extension) only for audio files
**Gets ready to explain M4A files, but sees the overwhelming amount of information on the thread. Decides it’s not worth it.**
5:12. "112Kb rips from youtube".... yep... yeah... that's me in a nutshell
It is sad, i am into audio after my uncle passed away. 😭
Avdshare Audio Converter also helps to convert between various audio formats, video formats or convert video to audio format
0:12 This made me laugh so much!!
flac sounds so much better than mp3. Also, headphone reviews showing the reviewer using mp3 players and iphones trigger me. Of course the ipods sound just as good as $200 sennheisers on an iphone, lossy file in, trash sound out.
kousaka san or also when they review audio quality on phones or whatever using a free Spotify account. 🙄😒
192 kHz: Because fuck Nyquist theorem.
I use 24-bit @ 96000Hz (though you shouldn't be able to distinguish this with 48000Hz) and using MP3 @ 320Kbps sounds extremely similar to flac.
seasong Funny, I once had someone say the same thing about 4K video. I couldn't believe he couldn't see the difference. So sad about about people who can't hear the difference between mp3 and flac. Its as clear a difference to me as 740p vs 4K video.
kousaka san Yeah sorry but that's just placebo or you're using incorrect settings for mp3 compression. Maybe you listen to deathcore or something that involves 20 instruments? That would probably be noticeable between mp3 and flac - but this can be fixed with a decent DAC anyway. Also about your comment about 4K videos, not all people have the right monitors in order to experience it properly - this can also be applied to audio listening I guess.
Ogg is a container. Vorbis is a codec.
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Yes, I have a lot of 128 Kbits youtube rips becasue it's nearly impossible to find them in other ways.
Also I have the rest of collection in mp3 at 192kbps with 48000Hz because space.
Also screw music streaming.
MGMX today we have Bandcamp, Beatport, iTunes Store, Juno, Music.me, Qobuz, (+Deejay.de, Decks, Discogs for vinyls...) ... i think you can find +80% of your music here 😉
The stuff I like is so weird than none of that sites has them. Also others are rare recordings that was made in even lower quality, so even 128kbps is a dream.
i like do that for friends, but my ears require FLAC only
@@TLRPhotographe all of those have issues💀
@@MasterGeekMX fr💀
My friend made a song before and we set on a Flac format set it to 32 bit and rize the frequency to 96000 hz.. And your right we could hear a small details sound.
~ Flac is good for mastering or archiving.
~ simple storage just use Ogg VBR.
~ less space usage just use Opus VBR.
Would have thought you would have gone into more detail to be honest, such as explaining MP3 V0 etc. Maybe you could have included things like VBR/CBR too
For me the important is album art of music.
All of my music files are in *.mp3. The reason is that File Explorer allows me to add/edit tags like "Contributing Artist", "Title", et cetera.
lol 1:19
Lol here too. 1:16 Let's not get misled here. For one thing, Even on a CD there is some loss, because there's only a certain bitrate at which the mikes could capture audio info -- so even a master recording lacks some audio info of the sound waves which the performers put out into the auditorium. Then inevitably the conversion to digital for CD did not capture all the info the mikes did.
I am an audiophile, and not a professional one but a amateur one. I went from 128Kbps MP3s to 320kbps MP3s and then I went to M4A (AAC & ALAC) to FLAC. and I found FLAC to be most satisfying but nearly undistinguished from 320kbps MP3 (I used Deezer as a source) and I used Spek software for comparison and also my listening abilities.
But recently, I came to know that if you want to convert a youtube video to audio then the best format for audio is OGG, for comparing them I used SPEK and I found that when you convert a youtube video song to MP3, frequencies above than 15k are cut off (not present) but when you convert to OGG, all frequencies upto 20k are present.
Also when I downloaded a youtube video and analysed it, I came to know that RUclips itself uses OGG (Iibopus) as a audio codec in its videos. this might be reason for good conversion.
Also I came to know that when you reduce a video quality of a video in youtube like from 1080p to 144p, the audio quality remains the same. as far as I know.
P.S. I know youtube is a bad source for music.
Times is changed.
For less storage, Opus stereo 128kbps 48KHz can be good option, now at 2020 youtube adopted it.
You are right OGG is still best loosy compressed format espescially for surround and big audio hardware (500+ kbps & 32bit-float at same sample rate). The result closely approach Flac.
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You mean bewwies?
4:55 fart xd
The editing in this video was nothing short of godly
.ALAC-
AKBAR
you forgot one! back in the day my music from limewire would always come in the cool .exe audio format!
I recommend Avdshare Audio Converter which can easily convert between various audio formats like FLAC, DTS, WAV, MP4, M4A, AAC, OGG etc.
It has both Windows and Mac version.
I actually don't understand why MP3 is still so widely used. M4A (AAC) was designed to be better than MP3, and it is. You can just set the same target bitrate and the sound quality gets higher. I've even been able to compress a few things to 32 kbps (from lossless) and still only minimal differences. That does depend on your encoder though. Nero AAC Encoder is best if you don't have iTunes AAC.
The other reason why M4A is better than MP3 is that it's actually legal to encode it. Not kidding, you need to have a license if you want to make an MP3 encoder (and many are illegal).
So, I sent my friend a file called antiair.flac and it contained the sound of a barrage of anti-air fire. He died laughing.
Most of my music library I recorded off DAB radio. The station broadcasts at 192kbps so encoding at any higher bitrate would be a waste of bits. Some is MP3s I downloaded (legally!) from the web -- most of these are 128kbps so if you think that bitrate's crap, blame those who chose the recording's bitrate.
I have a pirated music library ripped from youtube at 128kbps.
I love it 😂
Some great albums pictures at 1:15! Very nice