• ඞmir
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    2910 months ago

    Mp3s from YT are garbage quality, it’s double transcoding from YT’s already low quality input.

    • edric
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      1110 months ago

      Yeah. If you’re gonna be downloading music from youtube, might as well just torrent flac or at least 320kbps quality instead.

    • Destragras
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      510 months ago

      You can download audio from YouTube as 160kbps opus files, which aren’t lossless sure but it’s the highest quality you can get from YouTube if alternate means aren’t an option.

      • redfellow
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        510 months ago

        And that’s trusting that whoever uploaded the track had a good quality source. And it’s still double encoded.

        • @Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          110 months ago

          Any official uploads from recent years are going to be just fine. And if not then maybe their spotify upload is broken too

          • redfellow
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            110 months ago

            Hq is equivalent to 320kbps, noticably better than YT quality

        • ඞmir
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          110 months ago

          Well if you save the opus or aac it’s only single lossy compression, not double unless the uploader used a lossy file as their input. But if that was the case, ripping mp3 would be triple lossy compression…

    • krimsonbun
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      310 months ago

      I haven’t noticed any quality issues and I only listen to mp3s from youtube

      • ඞmir
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        110 months ago

        Then you probably don’t know any better because the vast majority of YT uploads are terrible quality. If you have anywhere near decent headphones/earbuds you can hear the difference immediately.

        • krimsonbun
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          210 months ago

          Well I’ve used spotify with and without headphones on popular phones, I can’t tell the difference from youtube. I usually download the music directly from the original uploader.