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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: On-the-fly Conversion: Allow "convert lossless or unsupported formats"
« on: August 08, 2022, 09:33:19 AM »Slightly off-topic, but a pragmatic solution perhaps:
Try ripping one of your WMA's to Opus, using its highest quality settings.
Yes, 'transcoding is bad', but Opus is really very good.
Then do a listening test between the WMA and the Opus version.
I am curious if you will be able to hear a difference. (be honest ;-)
And if you do: is it really bad, and would you recognise it if you weren't doing A-B comparing?
Yeah, it's a fair plan - I'm not going to pretend I've got the best ears in the world, and my BT earbuds and car stereo will be doing horrendous enough things to probably make it moot... and realistically, the plan was to transcode them to *something* all along.
TBH I think I was always going to buy the replacement CDs at some point, just figured this set of constraints wasn't *that* weird (given portable devices tend to be less capable than desktops...), so figured it was probably worth raising
(and since my original post, I've already gone and replaced the most important album anyway...)