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  • Why use lossless for that when transparent lossy compression already does that with so much less bandwidth?

    Opus is indistinguishable from lossless at 192 Kbps. Lossless needs roughly 800 - 1400 Kbps. That's a savings of between 4x - 7x with the exact same quality.

    Your wireless antenna often draws more energy in proportion to bandwidth use than the decoder chip does, so using high quality lossy even gives you better battery life, on top of also being more tolerant to radio noise (easier to add error correction) and having better latency (less time needed to send each audio packet). And you can even get better range with equivalent radio chips due to needing less bandwidth!

    You only need lossless for editing or as a source for transcoding, there's no need for it when just listening to media

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  • You literally can not distinguish 192 Kbps Opus from true lossless. Not even with movie theater grade speakers. You only benefit from lossless if you're editing / applying multiple effects, etc, which you will not do at the receiving end of a Bluetooth connection.

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  • Nobody needs lossless over Bluetooth

    Edit: plenty of downvotes by people who have never listened to ABX tests with high quality lossy compare versus lossless

    At high bitrate lossy you literally can't distinguish it. There's math to prove it;

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem

    At 44 kHz 16 bit with over 192 Kbps with good encoders your ear literally can't physically discern the difference

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  • There's a push for Opus now, it's the perfect codec for Bluetooth because it's a singular codec that fits the whole spectrum from low bandwidth speech to high quality audio, and it's fully free

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  • Opus! It's a merge of a codec designed for speech (from Skype!) with one designed for high quality audio by Xiph (same people who made OGG/Vorbis).

    Although it needs some more work on latency, it prefers to work on bigger frames but default than Bluetooth packets likes, but I've seen there's work on standardizing a version that fits Bluetooth. Google even has it implemented now on Pixel devices.

    Fully free codec!

  • But Trump IS worse

    The prior Trump admin's peace deal proposal was giving Israel total control over all of Palestine (full responsibility for physical security), and give them free land in the west bank, with no rights guaranteed to Palestinians

  • Fascinating how you think I'm the apologist when you at no point have been capable of criticizing Trump for being far worse, not acknowledging your own personal role in ensuring the genocide will get worse by helping Trump win, not acknowledging that those who opposed Trump did so to prevent things from getting worse, and that you then instead of helping prevent things get worse decided to send us spiraling down into a far far worse situation, for literally no other reason than that you're an asshole who thinks the genocide is about you, because why else would you take an action that you claim is to make things "better" by removing a flawed person from power, when you knew all along the replacement would be worse? You're only trying to ensure you didn't support a person who didn't do enough to prevent a genocide - meanwhile that decision actually means you made an active choice to make the genocide worse.

    You're only trying to shift blame. You and your crowd are personally responsible for things getting worse and you know it.

  • A lot of genocide, a lot of oppression, a lot of revoking human rights, a lot of political persecution, a lot shifting blame, is quite the fucking choice

    And Biden actually pushed for ceasefire and got one. Trump doesn't.

  • You're mixing up cause and effect

    Yes it's not the best strategy to appeal to the right, but the truth is their policies were more popular, Trump didn't win on any tangible proposal, he won because of people staying home because they didn't think he'd be that dangerous + people voting for Trump because the were convinced he'd be the one to deliver the policies they wanted (often the democrat's policies which Trump took credit for) + straight propaganda from billionaire owned newspapers

    The real fix isn't changing the policies and all that, it's better outreach and showing how their actions have directly helped people and how Trump achieved nothing positive

    Also is very very weird when Biden has been the most progressive US president ever to talk about the whole party slipping to the right.

  • The number of channels should not be the issue. However, the conversions involved might be bad at translating expected relative volume.

    Another thing is that in the movie theater they might tweak volume independently per channel to boost stuff like speech while at home you'll watch with default volumes