lesscraft

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1. 1.▲
   by lesscraft 3mo ago

   You can use -q:a, for "true" VBR, but its metrics are a few percent (imperceptable, we still win) less. "The benchmarks I posted were done mainly on 44.1Khz. I tuned by ear on 48Khz data though, so some of the windowing/
2. 2.▲
   by lesscraft 3mo ago

   The issue was twofold, on one hand, using TNS on top of PNS meant the noise that got inserted was shaped by TNS, which is nonsense since the decoder generated the noise, not the encoder. This made PNS explode. The second, biggest issue was
3. 3.▲
   by lesscraft 3mo ago

   Pretty much all DACs run at 48Khz by default due to operating systems picking it as a sane default.
4. 4.▲
   by lesscraft 3mo ago

   No one really offloads AAC, apart from Apple. Opus can be decoded on very cheap microcontrollers entirely in software using the reference library.
5. 5.▲
   by lesscraft 3mo ago

   The benchmarks were made using afconvert on OSX with the default VBR settings.