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    Comment #48755641

    You can use -q:a, for "true" VBR, but its metrics are a few percent (imperceptable, we still win) less. "The benchmarks I posted were done mainly on 44.1Khz. I tuned by ear on 48Kh…

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    Comment #48751484

    The issue was twofold, on one hand, using TNS on top of PNS meant the noise that got inserted was shaped by TNS, which is nonsense since the decoder generated the noise, not the en…

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    Comment #48751401

    Pretty much all DACs run at 48Khz by default due to operating systems picking it as a sane default.

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    Comment #48751387

    No one really offloads AAC, apart from Apple. Opus can be decoded on very cheap microcontrollers entirely in software using the reference library.

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    Comment #48751371

    The benchmarks were made using afconvert on OSX with the default VBR settings.

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