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[Neco]

I am honestly surprised we are restricted to MP3 streaming for compressed audio, at this point.

I find 128Kbps to be barely acceptable in the car, and would prefer 128Kbps  AAC, with the option to drop to 96Kbps if needed

having to jump from 128k MP3 -> 320k MP3 is a bit absurb imho


am I missing something here?

[blgentry]

128k AAC is awful also.

Brian.

[RD James]

128k AAC is awful also.

Perhaps, but AAC should be higher quality than MP3 for any given bitrate. High bitrate AAC can sound pretty good. MP3 has artifacts which are present at any bitrate.

[Neco]

128k  AAC is definitely worlds better than MP3, and is quite suitable for streaming in the car on 6GB/month  (I am in the car a lot)

[blgentry]

Perhaps, but AAC should be higher quality than MP3 for any given bitrate. High bitrate AAC can sound pretty good. MP3 has artifacts which are present at any bitrate.

You think MP3 has "artifacts" and AAC doesn't?

Brian.

[RD James]

You think MP3 has "artifacts" and AAC doesn't?

MP3 has inherent artifacts as a result of how it compresses audio that won't disappear no matter how high you set the bitrate.
AAC is a much better codec if you're going to use lossy audio compression.

[Hendrik]

At a given bitrate, AAC is definitely better then MP3 - and Opus even more so (Opus really sound quite nice at 128kbps, and perhaps even less).
I definitely plan to integrate AAC streaming and perhaps even Opus if I can make a new encoder plugin that magically handles both (and perhaps more).

[Neco]

It would definitely be nice to see.    Personally,  I stream from DI.FM a lot,  and their app offers  HE-AAC @ 64Kbps which has IMHO very acceptable audio quality.