What is the best format settings to store a physical music?

I did look at Flac but the data is almost the same size as the uncompressed Wav and none of my devices or self hosted services seem designed to play flac files. Everything gets converted.

What are people using?

  • unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    A lot. Mp3 is a proprietary format on copyright. Some idiot ceo can came and change the rules, let’s add an ads mandatory for each decoder. Today with a bunch of open source good quality formats, is kind of pointless depending on a private company for your music.

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      5 months ago

      Mp3 is a proprietary format on copyright. Some idiot ceo can came and change the rules, let’s add an ads mandatory for each decoder.

      This is not true. Copyright is not relevant to an encoding standard. The standard has been unchanged for 26 years and all legal claims of patent rights related to implimentations of the standard have expired before May 2017.

      @[email protected] you should probably know about this as well.

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      5 months ago

      patents is what you’re thinking of. and all (afaik) of them relating to mp3 format have expired.

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      5 months ago

      That is valid and good criticism of mp3!

      I wonder if navidrome can handle switching from mp3 to opus.