bigshot
Headphoneus Supremus
AAC is generally transparent around 128. Certain difficult kinds of sounds might require a bit more. By 192, everything I threw at it was transparent, except this one album.
Would you say then that 256 would be the safest bet to have everything transparent?AAC is generally transparent around 128. Certain difficult kinds of sounds might require a bit more. By 192, everything I threw at it was transparent, except this one album.
How does it fare with tha Sammy Davis Jr album?I use AAC 256 VBR for everything.
How does it fare with tha Sammy Davis Jr album?
I started out with mp3's. Then I discovered this lovely forum and started buying flac or ripping CDs to flac and then encoding them to mp3. Research lead me to AAC and encoding everything again to AAC 256. More research lead to Opus because I needed more room without dropping a bunch of cash on a 400 gig card. A majority of my music is some pretty complex metal with lots of riffs, fast drumming, and so on. I started encoding my toughest tracks and abx them against the other codecs. All I could say was wow. As I said before, I couldn't tell a difference between them. YMMV.I would probably still keep using AAC for my portable but since I have an Android phone which has built in compatibility for opus, I figured I'd try it and save some space. Still keeping the AAC files though because of the overall compatibility in case I have something that doesn't support opus.
Mainly if I get the same quality at opus 160 (or 128) as AAC 256, I'd be very content. From listening so far it seems that way, I just hope I'm not well overdoing it.
Right I hear you on the re-encoding, my lossless to opus conversion is taking 3 days, not the most exciting process haha. Some say what I have now is overkill but hopefully it's also foresighted assurance as the future draws closer.The only thing you want to avoid is having to go back and re-encode everything higher. AAC 256 VBR is totally safe with every piece of music I've heard, so the difference between 128 or 192 and 256 doesn't really matter to me. I wanted one file type that would work for everything- serious home listening with speakers, and lossy in the car.
Glad to hear all has went well with you in regards to opus on your phone. Even using the beta of the newest version myself right now, I haven't noticed any hiccups at all this far.I started out with mp3's. Then I discovered this lovely forum and started buying flac or ripping CDs to flac and then encoding them to mp3. Research lead me to AAC and encoding everything again to AAC 256. More research lead to Opus because I needed more room without dropping a bunch of cash on a 400 gig card. A majority of my music is some pretty complex metal with lots of riffs, fast drumming, and so on. I started encoding my toughest tracks and abx them against the other codecs. All I could say was wow. As I said before, I couldn't tell a difference between them. YMMV.
I haven't experienced any bugs using Opus across two different Android phones (using Neutron & foobar mobile) or my Rockboxed Sansa Clip.
AAC192 artifacts a tiny bit. AAC 256 VBR is perfect with everything. I've encoded thousands of CDs at that setting and not one single problem. Whatever setting you choose, with AAC you should always use VBR. It only helps, it can't hurt.
I use the free encoder pack for foobar 2000, simple setup for me.what do you use to convert to opus?