There's a push for Opus now, it's the perfect codec for Bluetooth because it's a singular codec that fits the whole spectrum from low bandwidth speech to high quality audio, and it's fully free

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Opus is great, but there is no option to make it lossless, like what WavPack (also a free-as-in-freedom codec) provides for example.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Transparency is good enough, it's intended to be a good fit for streaming, not masters for editing

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why not have the option for true lossless available so that Bluetooth can be scaled up to sound good on even the highest end of systems.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 days ago

You literally can not distinguish 192 Kbps Opus from true lossless. Not even with movie theater grade speakers. You only benefit from lossless if you're editing / applying multiple effects, etc, which you will not do at the receiving end of a Bluetooth connection.