@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.
@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.