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node · 20w
Yeah wav is good quality. That’s what I would upload to Wavlake. If there’s a good solution where I can easily post albums with album arts and the genre I would like to try
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WAV is also huge. At least use a lossless codec like FLAC. That will cut the size in half.

WAV will rape people's data plans, and most users won't notice the difference in quality. A high bitrate mp3 or AAC will be enough for 95% of users, and use 20% of the bandwidth.

Most music services serve multiple bitrate streams, so users can select the tradeoff they want, bandwidth vs quality.
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node · 20w
I don’t know how Wavlake does it. I dont see an option in the settings. MP3 the quality suffers
semisol · 20w
^ This. FLAC can get up to 60% smaller and I think has pretty good support for metadata. But for listening the difference between 256Kbps-384Kbps Opus or AAC, and 16 or 24 bit FLAC/WAV is indistinguishable. It's good for archival though as you avoid generational loss if you want to transcode your l...