• @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    410 months ago

    Especially when your browser or application requests a high quality bitrate, youtube compression is opus 128.

    A person could make the argument that it’s not lossless so it’s not worth listening to, but opus is extremely high quality especially at that bitrate.

    If you wanna try it for yourself, take a flac or whatever, upload it to yt, then use something like yt-dlp -x that defaults to the highest quality to redownload just the audio stream.