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But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?
In between
It's not in MP3, it's Ogg vorbis and I don't have equipment and time to have an informed opinion about how good Ogg vorbis is at any given bit rate.
They claim usual people can't tell between what they do and better bit rates. I know I'm picky so I know I'll notice something.
Remembering t this is Anna's archive. The goal is preservation of human culture, not pirating.
I remember hearing something about Ogg vorbis being outmoded by some other Ogg? I don't know I've moved from mp3 to FLAC personally.
Yes, Ogg Vorbis's sucessor is Opus, which is amazing at low bitrates. That's why they used 75 kbit/s Opus for all file with
popularity = 0opposed to the original 160 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis for all files withpopularity > 0.