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2013 codec poll |
  Jan 14 2013, 14:04
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 Group: Members Posts: 1149 Joined: 4-May 04 From: France Member No.: 13875  |
What codecs do you use on a regular basis? This includes your ripping / encoding preferences, but also the format(s) of music that you regularly buy online (iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, etc…). As such, multiple choices are allowed.
2012 poll 2011 poll -------------------- caudec -c lossyTAK -q S *.flac
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Jan 14 2013, 15:04
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 Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 1448 Joined: 11-February 03 From: Vermont Member No.: 4955 |
QUOTE (skamp @ Jan 14 2013, 08:04)  What codecs do you use on a regular basis? This includes your ripping / encoding preferences, but also the format(s) of music that you regularly buy online All new rips at this point are archived in FLAC. Most of my "working copies" are in vorbis or mpc. Trying/considering aggressive lossywav/flac for this. Audio books and other speech files for the portable player in Opus (older stuff in speex) at 10-12 kb/s (5 MB/hour) Opus will get more use on the portable for music when/if the rockbox decoder gets efficient enough to run higher bit rates. For Google Music (cloud) I first convert to ~128 kb mp3 to keep down data rates and space needed for local caching on my tablet. (vorbis or FLAC files would be stored by Google as 320 kb/s mp3 files) I have an emusic subscription and acquire about an album a month in ~180 kb mp3 that way. This post has been edited by DonP: Jan 14 2013, 15:51 |
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Jan 14 2013, 15:19
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Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 20-March 10 Member No.: 79175 |
FLAC + MP3.
Panasonic Blu-Ray players are supporting FLAC now. It won't make any revolution but at least yet another advance ahead of other codecs. LAME -V0 for portable, but portable is only for trips. Not home listening. This post has been edited by krafty: Jan 14 2013, 15:20 |
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Jan 14 2013, 15:41
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 Group: Members Posts: 492 Joined: 5-January 06 From: Dublin Member No.: 26898 |
Rip to flac. Lame V4 for my Sansa Clip.
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Jan 14 2013, 16:27
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Group: Members Posts: 1149 Joined: 4-May 04 From: France Member No.: 13875 |
I transcode my FLACs to Ogg Vorbis AoTuV (-q 5) for my Clip+, which is almost completely full. I also transcode to LossyFLAC (standard) for my Rockboxed iPod Classic, just because I can (it's only half full).
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Jan 14 2013, 16:48
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 Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 16-March 12 From: Bellingham, WA Member No.: 97852 |
- FLAC for ripping new/used CDs and I use it for home playback as well.
- LAME V2 for portables: USB stick and Sansa Clip+ for car and work playback. - Amazon MP3s (of various bitrates) purchased too, for any uses. |
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Jan 14 2013, 17:02
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 Group: Developer Posts: 1245 Joined: 27-June 07 Member No.: 44789 |
LossyWAV (TAK) -- Main Library
TAK -p4m (for Solo Piano) - Main Library LAME MP3 - for everything else C. -------------------- TAK -p4m :: LossyWAV -q 6 | TAK :: Lame 3.98 -V 2
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Jan 14 2013, 17:19
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Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 6-March 07 Member No.: 41244 |
WavPack (CD rips) and FLAC (downloads) for archiving, Musepack for portable use.
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Jan 14 2013, 17:22
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Group: Members Posts: 1318 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Argentina, Bs As Member No.: 18803 |
FLAC -8
Apple AAC, Opus 128 kbps for portable music Opus 64 kbps for speech. |
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Jan 14 2013, 17:26
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Group: Members Posts: 437 Joined: 11-February 12 Member No.: 97076 |
Last year I deleted all my MP3s, I decided it was time for me to upgrade. Never used an MP3 since.
FLAC -5 for archival AAC (foobar2000 + qaac TVBR Q73/150kbps) + iPhone as portable player AAC (foobar2000 + qaac TVBR Q36/95kbps) or HE-AAC 32kbps for audiobooks + CD burn for car listening This post has been edited by eahm: Jan 14 2013, 17:53 |
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Jan 14 2013, 17:49
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Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 11-February 10 Member No.: 78081 |
FLAC for ripping CDs. 128kb/s AAC for portable use.
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Jan 14 2013, 18:04
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 Group: Super Moderator Posts: 3268 Joined: 26-July 02 From: princegeorge.ca Member No.: 2796 |
LossyWAV -> FLAC, lossy WavPack - HQ lossy
Musepack, Opus - Portable use Vorbis - Deprecated portable use, still use on occasion, streaming with foo_vorbisstream MP3 - Deprecated portable use, backwards compatibility for dealing with noobs WavPack - Primary archival format FLAC - Interoperability format -------------------- (atrix|(fb2k->e-mu 0404 usb|audio 8 dj))->hd280|jvc ha-fx35-b
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Jan 14 2013, 18:20
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 Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 5-May 02 Member No.: 1974 |
- Amazon MP3
- MP3 Lame -V2 for CD-ripping - HE-AAC (Nero q0,25) transcoded MP3 for mobile phone (music and audiobooks) |
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Jan 14 2013, 18:41
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Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 1-March 11 Member No.: 88621 |
All CD's are ripped to FLAC -8 for my Library/archive.
On local LAN we play the FLAC's directly. For portable use I transcode to Ogg Vorbis at quality 2. I also transcode to Ogg Vorbis q2 on the fly when streaming over the Internet (with VLC as the client) on my Subsonic server. I use mp3 only when there is no other option. For example, the stereo in my truck only supports mp3 so for that I transcode to mp3 using LAME at -V2. |
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Jan 14 2013, 19:44
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 Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 13-January 09 From: Trondheim Member No.: 65515 |
MP3 and AAC are only due to mainstream use, I avoid encoding in either mp3 or aac, personally I try to use Ogg Vorbis when possible (for lossy),
but since Ogg Opus popped up I've begun moving towards that (instead of Ogg) and wave a fond farewell to Ogg Vorbis. As to lossless it's obviously FLAC, but I also selected "Other" since I also have some uncompressed Wav 32bit floating point files. But those are my "masters". (I make music, so...) -------------------- "Normality exist in the minds of others, not mine!" - Rescator
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Jan 14 2013, 19:48
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Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 4-October 11 From: VA Beach, VA Member No.: 94145 |
lossyWAV Xtraportable + FLAC -0. I've yet to encounter a single audible artifact in any file I've processed (null-testing aside), the decoding is ridiculously fast/light on the processor, and the file sizes usually end up being around that of high-bitrate lossy. It's my very favorite portable solution.
This post has been edited by FreaqyFrequency: Jan 14 2013, 19:48 -------------------- FLAC -2 w/ lossyWAV 1.3.0i -q X -i
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 Jan 14 2013, 23:07
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 28-May 08 Member No.: 53862 |
Apple AAC 256 kbps bought from iTunes Music Store that I listening on my MacBook Pro with a pair of Beyerdynamic T5P headphones. Amazing sound quality!
-------------------- 256 kbps Apple AAC bought iTunes music
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Jan 14 2013, 23:27
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 Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 23-May 08 From: Rzeczpospolita Member No.: 53744 |
Audiobooks (original): MP3.
Audiobooks (portable): Opus, 24kbps mono. Music (original): FLAC. Music (portable): AAC, 96-256kbps, Fraunhofer. This post has been edited by no404error: Jan 14 2013, 23:27 |
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Jan 14 2013, 23:34
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 Group: Members Posts: 468 Joined: 16-February 10 Member No.: 78200 |
All CD rips and vinyl transfers are archived in FLAC and backed up redundantly to HDD and BD-Rs.
Anything that makes its way into my iTunes library is usually decompressed from FLAC to AIFF and then converted to "iTunes Plus" settings (AAC @256 Kbps VBR) as to be uniform with purchased and matched files. I "use" FLAC the most (as in archiving,) but I never really listen to it. If it's not on my iPod Touch (lossy AAC) I've either burned it to CD-R or DVD-A or it's analogue media. -------------------- The Loudness War is over. Now it's a hopeless occupation.
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Jan 14 2013, 23:36
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 Group: Members Posts: 730 Joined: 5-January 04 Member No.: 10970 |
Apple tvbr q95 (~192kbps)
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Jan 15 2013, 02:15
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 Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 3-February 12 Member No.: 96900 |
I don't rip any lossless. If I like the music I'll buy the CD.. CD = Lossless Archive.
When it comes to Lossy I'll go with MP3, Ogg or Opus. All my CDs are backed up to lossy for portable music playing. This post has been edited by soundping: Jan 15 2013, 02:24 |
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Jan 15 2013, 03:33
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 Group: Members Posts: 123 Joined: 29-July 12 Member No.: 101859 |
FLAC -8 to archive. I find the encoder finishes before the drive is done the next track may as well save space. Vorbis q2 for my clip+, and android phone, love that winamp includes autov build. WMA pro q50 for the zunehd in my car, the zune interface is still the best for in car plus it synchs wirelessly from my driveway. Included mp3 because I still have some from out of print albums I havent tracked down yet.
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Jan 15 2013, 03:53
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Group: Members Posts: 319 Joined: 26-November 04 Member No.: 18345 |
- FLAC -5 for home audio systems
- MP3 transcoded using LAME 3.99.5 -V2 for portables - One file per track - I've never purchased an MP3 download I occasionally share a song or two with friends, but they have to be in MP3 format, as only a handful have even heard of FLAC, and none of them use it. That's probably the biggest reason why I don't bother with any other lossy format. |
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Jan 15 2013, 03:58
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Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 23-September 06 Member No.: 35512 |
lossy： MP3 (Lame V2)
lossless: TAK (default compresion) One file per disc/album with cue sheets or chapters |
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Jan 15 2013, 05:12
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Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 14-January 12 Member No.: 96431 |
I am using mainly FLAC for archive, but I do have some old rips on MP3 that I can't find anymore (or simple didn't care to search). For mobile, I mainly use Ogg Vorbis. Someday I want to switch to Opus but it's still too soon.
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Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 19th June 2013 - 17:12 |
