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pingryanime:
Checked around on the wiki but unless I missed a page, it seems there isn't really any "preferred" set of settings. Though I believe I know what the answer's going to be, I'll ask anyway as it's always better to be safe than sorry :P


Is there are preference between VBRv0 and CBR?(320/256) I don't exactly consider myself an audiophile nor do I believe I even have the hardware to hear lossless, so I never could tell the difference between lossless and lossy, even with such a large difference in bitrates. As such, I sure as hell can't tell the difference between two mp3 files playing VBRv0 and CBR320kbps. So to me, it really doesn't matter as long as anything I'm listening to CBR doesn't really drop below 256. That being said, I would assume anyone downloading a lossy version of a music torrent on bakabt would be, most likely, in a similar situation to me so at the end of the day it really probably doesn't matter, but yeah. Is there any real preference between VBR and CBR? (Most of the torrents I quickly checked that are already on bakabt seems to be CBR)

Motoko11:
If you're looking to encode audio in a lossy format, personally, I wouldn't use MP3, I'd use AAC, AAC does the same job as MP3 but much more efficiently. Someone correct me if I got these figures wrong, but I think a 30kb/s AAC LC is the equivalent of a 128 kb/s MP3. So AAC has a much higher compression to quality ratio, so if you make an AAC with 128 or 192 kb/s, it's be a much better quality sound as compared to an MP3 the same size.

Motoko11:
Also, to answer your question, the difference between CBR (Constant Bitrate) and VBR (Variable Bitrate) is that CBR will use the bitrate given all the time, it will not fluctuate much, whereas VBR uses how much bitrate as it needs whilest keeping an average bitrate that you specified in the settings, so VBR will use a little more kb/s at a stage in the file it'll need a little more, and a little less if it doesn't need as much in that part of the file.

metro.:
For lossy, I would suggest V0. 320 isn't worth the extra space, and AAC has compatibility issues.

megido-rev.M:
^This

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