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YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)
- How Good Does it Get? You Tube is clearly used by a very large number of people. In general, they will be interested in watching videos of various types of content.
Given the main interest here is in determining what choice may deliver highest YT output audio quality I decided that analysis should focus on the higher, more conventional rates – 48k and 44k1. However a more benign interpretation may be that it arises as a result of the process applied by YT slightly altering the overall amplitudes of the waveforms so they don’t quite match in size – hence leave a non-zero difference when the input and output are subtracted. Since the flac stream essentially represents the LPCM input to the BBC’s aac encoder they can serve as an example of what is possible if we compare and and contrast them with the above results of examining the YT output.
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