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Tips and Tricks / Re: Getting the newest development update for bass_aac.dll
« on: August 06, 2021, 09:15:01 PM »
Thank you! I tried changes so many settings before I found your solution. 
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Bug Reports / Re: Report Website related bugs/issues here
« on: January 15, 2019, 11:17:43 PM »
I might have found a website bug that might be pretty serious... or it might be nothing.
Who should I send the info to? Cant really post anything more here without giving it away.
Who should I send the info to? Cant really post anything more here without giving it away.
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Beyond MusicBee / Re: opus, aac or something else?
« on: November 20, 2017, 12:55:57 PM »
I think some of you understood my previous post because someone started to talk about file size (Opus vs MP3) but where compressing them at the same bitrate...
The thing is that Opus is able to maintain a better sound quality at lower bitrates which will make the file size smaller.
And that was the whole point.
Example:
Try a 64 kbps OPUS files vs a 64 kbps MP3 file and convert them from the same noloss source.
Both files will be about the same size but Opus will sound way better. I would even say that Opus at 32kbps vs MP3 at 64kbps , Opus will still win.
But of course you cant assume you'll get CD-quality Opus files at 64 kbps, I have no idea what bitrate the people behind Opus would compare it with.
Incase you want to try it out:
LameXP is a pretty good GUI for LAME Enc and Opuslib and a couple of other codecs if you want to play around.
http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/
The thing is that Opus is able to maintain a better sound quality at lower bitrates which will make the file size smaller.
And that was the whole point.
Example:
Try a 64 kbps OPUS files vs a 64 kbps MP3 file and convert them from the same noloss source.
Both files will be about the same size but Opus will sound way better. I would even say that Opus at 32kbps vs MP3 at 64kbps , Opus will still win.
But of course you cant assume you'll get CD-quality Opus files at 64 kbps, I have no idea what bitrate the people behind Opus would compare it with.
Incase you want to try it out:
LameXP is a pretty good GUI for LAME Enc and Opuslib and a couple of other codecs if you want to play around.
http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/
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Beyond MusicBee / Re: opus, aac or something else?
« on: November 18, 2017, 05:18:48 PM »I notice a lot of forums where people register and then only make posts pushing this Opus. It's very odd. Either it's great and has a devoted cult-like following, or someone is making money off of it.
Either way, mp3 is universal and established and not going anywhere any time soon. It's going to be FLAC for lossless and mp3 for lossy/portable for a long time coming, probably our lifetimes.
It's a conspiracy!
No, the thing is that I've used MusicBee for years and I used to have a account here, at least according to the plugin Lastpass, but couldn't login (too long ago I did that I assume so my acc. got deleted?) so I did register again just to answer this post I found through Google.
I don't develop Opus or have anything to do with it other than recently discovered that it's really good at compressing the audio.
And you can say that I promote it in a way because I really want more people to use it.
That way all these release groups (of legal material of course) could use higher bitrate for the video since Opus don't need much for high quality audio.
And music albums and such would also have a smaller file size of course but still the same good quality.
Just my 2 cents. Have a nice day guys!
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Beyond MusicBee / Re: opus, aac or something else?
« on: November 18, 2017, 12:03:10 PM »
I know this thread is old but I found out about Opus a couple of weeks ago and it's amazing!
I've been converting 320/kbps MP3s (I know it's not ideal to convert from lossy formats) and also from lossless formats like FLAC into 96-128/kbps Opus files just to save space on my hard drives.
I know my computer speakers (2.1) isn't the best, people with really good equipment will probably hear a difference but going from MP3s that's ~12 MB into songs that's ~3.5MB. It's a huge difference if you have thousands of them and there's still not a major difference in quality, at least for my ears.
Also, it only takes about 10 seconds to convert a song (with LameXP).
I've also started to use Opus for audiobooks (you can really push the bitrate way down here) and also when ripping movies I now only use x265 and Opus.
Chrome, Firefox and Edge does support Opus.
Youtube started using it too in 2014.
Android 5.0+ supports it.
VLC.
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I've been converting 320/kbps MP3s (I know it's not ideal to convert from lossy formats) and also from lossless formats like FLAC into 96-128/kbps Opus files just to save space on my hard drives.
I know my computer speakers (2.1) isn't the best, people with really good equipment will probably hear a difference but going from MP3s that's ~12 MB into songs that's ~3.5MB. It's a huge difference if you have thousands of them and there's still not a major difference in quality, at least for my ears.
Also, it only takes about 10 seconds to convert a song (with LameXP).
I've also started to use Opus for audiobooks (you can really push the bitrate way down here) and also when ripping movies I now only use x265 and Opus.
Chrome, Firefox and Edge does support Opus.
Youtube started using it too in 2014.
Android 5.0+ supports it.
VLC.
.........
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