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Most people can’t tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and lossless, but hey if folks really want to waste their money on snake oil like gold-plated cables then I say let ‘em.
Hell, I can't even tell the difference between 128kbps and flac. Realizing that saved me a whole lot of hard drive space :D
It's still a good idea to have your main music library in flac for future proofing, but yeah 128kbps opus or ogg is what I use on mobile devices.
Isn't Ogg a container format?
TIL that Opus replaces both Speex and Vorbis (the latter of which i was about to question on).
Yeah, it is. Vorbis is the actual codec.