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Has anybody else noticed that YouTube's audio quality is now worse than it used to be?
I used to be able to listen to music on YouTube quite happily, knowing I wasn't getting the most amazing quality out of it, but now I physically cannot listen to any music on there - cymbals and distorted guitars in particular just sound awful.
Has it always been this way and I've just now realised it or did they degrade their quality?
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I think it's always been that way.
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The music is degrading from rotational velocidensity from being stored lossily
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>>59768260
I've seen a couple Reddit posts claiming they dropped from 256 to 128, which I totally buy. I've always been bothered by low-quality mp3s, its not as if I'm deaf to the difference, so I don't believe I've been listening to music this shite sounding all this time.
It really is BAD. I went on Vevo out of curiosity and it sounds just as bad.
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>>59768223
and those shitty youtube reencodes on older videos because of ever-evolving codecs
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>>59768223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_formats
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Streaming site is always a transcode festa and (((they))) know normies don't give a fuck about quality.
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>>59768223
It's been the same for years using HTML5, Opus with 160kb/s max.
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