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Spotify vs. Anna's Archive (reincantamentox.substack.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Modern pop music is already compressed to hell, FLAC is a waste of bandwidth unless you're encoding orchestral pieces.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I think you're confusing two different concepts, dynamic range compression and data compression.

    The first is like an automated volume control that lowers the volume really really fast in a matter of ms when the volume reachest a certain threshold, (can also work the other way where in increases below a certain threshold, or both).

    The reduces the file size, sacrificing quantity if a lossy codec is uses. Lossless codecs like flac are a bit to bit perfect of the original.

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