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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents (www.soundguys.com)
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[โ€“] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I like flac and I understand the human desire to get the best quality of everything. You can't tell the difference between 25mb flac and 2,5 mb 160 kbps opus though.

[โ€“] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago

Alright, I will concede that Opus at 160kbps is really good. I always knew at low bitrates it was better than mp3 but I have not used it in awhile. I store everything in flac.

But if anyone else wants to compare: https://opus-bitrates.anthum.com/ lets you compare various bit rates of Opus. I think I hear a high end distortion in 160 that I don't hear in the 512, but it could be expectation.