Best Audio Format for Storage? (kbin.social)

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What is the best format settings to store a physical music?

I did look at Flac but the data is almost the same size as the uncompressed Wav and none of my devices or self hosted services seem designed to play flac files. Everything gets converted.

What are people using?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm transcoding everything to 320kbps MP3s. It's much much smaller than flac, and I can't hear the difference even if I try.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Best part is mp3 even works with older media players like the usb port of 201X cars

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