Best Music Compression Format

(TechXplore)—A small team of researchers with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has found that compressing recorded music into the MP3 format results in the loss of emotional tones, leaving the result with less depth. In their paper published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, the researchers describe their study of the impact of ...

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Right now, specialist websites exist, such as HDtracks.com and Bandcamp.com, which are great sources for getting music in the best quality audio formats . They offer lossless music for sale, and there are always more and more online companies popping up every month to cater to the growing demand by consumers.

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For my MP3 player I tend to encode everything at the smallest file size I can without constantly hearing the compression artifacts. I currently am using Ogg at compression level 0 which is roughly equivilant to 64 Kbps. The only thing I don't like about the format is that Windows Media Player does not like it, so I must add my music to my MP3

https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/24696/best-lossy-format-for-music

What is The Best Audio Quality Format ? There is no consensus on the best -quality file format for listening to music but there are plenty of opinions, so let’s try to get a handle on them. Analog vs Digital Neil Young denounced all digital formats for their inability to faithfully reproduce analog, and Steve Jobs preferred vinyl. But digital, specifically in the form ...

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Okay, first of all m4a (or mp4, exact same thing) is a container, not a compression format . That means that a m4a could be AAC, ALAC (lossless), even an MP3, or all those three tracks in one file . I haven't used it but you should look into HVXC , a codec specifically designed to store speech audio, compatible with the m4a container, apparently

https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/6tu17x/whats_a_good_lossy_formatcompression_today_right/

Okay, first of all m4a (or mp4, exact same thing) is a container, not a compression format . That means that a m4a could be AAC, ALAC (lossless), even an MP3, or all those three tracks in one file . I haven't used it but you should look into HVXC , a codec specifically designed to store speech audio, compatible with the m4a container, apparently

https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/6tu17x/whats_a_good_lossy_formatcompression_today_right/