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@icedquinn @vib
The audiophiles I've come across seem to listen to a lot of orchestra or classic music. Or older rock music. Generally, if a codec handles instrumental music well, it handles everything else too. So that's usually the benchmark.

@vib
>no difference spotify 128kbps - flac
I'm gonna kill someone...

With youtube, things are a bit more nuanced.
Haven't used Youtube Music, but the normal Youtube can give you either AAC audio at only 128kbps, or opus audio (in 3 tiers of quality). The highest opus tier, can sometimes go enough over 128kbps that it is plausible that it achieves transparency (but that of course only if the audio uploaded was lossless to begin with).

I know it's hard to believe, but opus really is that fucking good.
Audiophiles will say MP3 achieves transparency at 320kbps (for me it doesn't, ever), AAC at 256kbps (for me, it barely does, but I would call it confirmed) and OPUS begins to be transparent at 128kbps (I go with 160kbps to be absolutely safe). Results are from double blind ABX tests.

@icedquinn
I've hacked my way into using apple's aac encoder, if I really need it. All I had to do was install foobar2000 via wine, install an encoder pack for it, then extract the encoding libraries from iTunes.

@icedquinn
>wma doesn't reach transparency
It would have to be extremely badly designed for that to be true. I mean, I don't doubt Microsoft's ability to fuck up something that bad, I just didn't think they fucked up EVERYTHING that bad.

For me, opus>apple aac>any other aac>mp3>=ogg.

@nonetrix
1) you shouldn't
2) probably nothing. I prefer saying nigger.
3) Fuck TOS.
4) Only if I can use a fake email

@lewdthewides
I haven't used it myself in a very long time. I only used Brave a bit when it came out.

As for Firefox forks... I personally can't stand how Firefox engine handles fonts. It just annoys me to no end, so I've given up trying any of them.

I'm with Vivaldi now. It works surprisingly well, considering how bloated with features it is.

@matrix
Late 90s early 2000s was pretty much the best. There are a few exceptions of good games here and there, but the last great year of gaming was 2007.
Change my mind.

@nukie
>documentary about the nazis
nothing better than a documentary about nazis on Christmas Eve.

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