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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 33 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Don't be too excited, guys:

Relatively popular songs are stored in their original 160kbit/s OGG Vorbis quality, while the rest use 75kbit/s to save hundreds of terabytes of storage.

75 kbit/s can sound pretty bad depending on the songs. If you listen to it on your phone speaker you probably won't notice, but this isn't for quality listening experience. Depends what they mean with popular though, maybe all "good" songs are stored in the higher bitrate.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The only songs reencoded to that quality is a sample of the 0-streams songs, which do make up a lot of the total count.

Everything that has been listened to at least once is in high quality.

[–] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

0-popularity, not 0-streams, which are two different metrics according to the archive blog post. But nevertheless, the re-encoded stuff is stuff pretty much no one will miss. Also Opus at 75kbps is much better than Vorbis or mp3 at that bitrate.

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