Which audio codec to choose? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by MoriGM@feddit.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Which audio codec are you people using when ripping cd's? I used wav but the size made it not really fitting on my phone (60GB) I switched to FLAC. Many people I talked to said that CD's just use mp3 codecs in the First place.

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[-] ToKrCZ@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Many people I talked to said that CD's just use mp3 codecs in the first place.

That may be partly true for non-original CDs made out of MP3 files via CD burner, but original CDs should not be "crippled" like that.

I think this debate is kind of late, at least a decade late. FLAC has clearly won; it is available everywhere and shall stay that way thanks to its open-source nature. With increasingly cheaper physical storage (SSD, HDD) and more affordable cloud storage, I think FLAC's longevity aspect just beats everything, even though there may be other codecs such as Opus which may provide a better compression/quality ratio.

But if you only care about lossless, just go with FLAC and enjoy your tunes. ;-)