Why do people still rip their music to 320kbps CBR in 2025 instead of using VBR for more efficiency?

becuz who fucking cares you stupid nerd
fuck you

Beats me. I use Opus.

imagine not using flac in 2025 when you get a 5tb hard drive for like $20

>>127279662 (OP)
i don't trust the algorithm, 320kbps means no surprises

>>127279662 (OP)
why do people still rip their music to mp3 instead of FLAC in the age of megagigaterra storage?

>>127279662 (OP)
i've been ripping some stuff recently from lossless on foobar to 320 cbr aac. should I switch to vbr instead, bros.

>>127280097
Yes, it makes more sense because it saves space.
>>127279976
>>127279764
Storage is nowhere that plentiful. It's not prohibitively expensive, but it's not $20 per 5tb either. Storage tech has been moving at a glacial pace compared to the rest of hardware.

>>127279745
spbp

vbr means tiny sonic details sound like shit because the algorithm asumes theres nothing there and applies compression. for drooling urban ape "music" its ok but for classical or any other more subtle music its a disaster

>>127280269
Provide empirically verifiable evidence to back up this claim.

>>127279662 (OP)
>buy four 8tb HDDs
>build NAS
>store your media in lossless formats
Simple as

I archive FLAC on hard drives and encode 320k AAC for my phone. My phone has 256GB of storage. Efficiency is obsolete. I got into a big argument with some faggot on /g/ who insisted I should be encoding all my music to 128k opus. Sure, it's transparent to the source but what the fuck does it matter if I don't care about saving space? Pretty soon we'll have cheap phones with even more storage so there won't be any point of using lossy audio on them at all.