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0 pointsderf_9y ago0 comments

Keep in mind that Opus does not define a bit-exact decoder. That allows it to have both floating-point and fixed-point implementations, as well as the flexibility to use different internal resamplers, MDCT implementations, etc. That flexibility helps to allow efficient implementations across a broad variety of devices.

However, as a result, the difference between an Opus decode and the original will only get you lossless reconstruction if you decode with the same build of Opus on the same machine. Also, since Opus uses IIR filters that ring to infinity, even on the same machine you only get bit-exact results if you decode each file from the beginning. It won't work if you seek.

Really, if you're concerned about the disk space required for separate FLAC and Opus encodes, delete the Opus version. FLAC decoding is extremely fast (5x faster than Wavpack), and Opus encoding is pretty efficient, too (on the same order as Wavpack decoding).

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teach9y ago· 1 in thread

What do you use for your private listening webapp? mpd?

microcolonel9y ago

I'm guessing you meant to reply to my reply.

It's not published yet, though I might. It's pretty simple, just grabs a static JSON manifest (which is generated by the shell script I run when I add music to the collection, which adds replaygain tags and transcodes) which includes basic metadata and the ReplayGain tags so that I can set that manually in the browser. Uses the standard rule for continuous play and replaygain: play whatever was in the view when you played the first song then shuffle play, when the song you're playing is followed by the next song or follows the previous song on the same album, apply album gain, else apply track gain.

I have yet to add dynamic features like cross-player play count tracking, and server-side play counts for the webapp. I think these would be a lot more work than I put in.

My Github is https://github.com/xorgy if you want to follow/check in to see if I publish it.

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