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aiilns on April 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify

Isn't Spotify serving 320kbps .ogg files?

How is YouTube better?

snvzz on April 19, 2022 [–]

YouTube uses Opus these days.

This is currently the best lossy codec available.

dikei on April 19, 2022 | [–]

Opus can save you a bit of bandwidth for the same sound quality, but if the bit rate is high enough, every codecs sound the same/transparent.

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