I know this is all online, so things are a little weird with audio exporting and everything, but is it possible to download a track as a .wav file instead of an .mp3? I've been told that .mp3 formats are the most basic sound formats you can possibly get. Plus, the sound quality on a .wav is significantly better than an .mp3.
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Ogg isn't bad, it's not perfect but better than mp3
Yes please! I'd definitely like to see this sometime in the future even if ogg gets removed and replaced with wav, it's the more widely accepted and lossless hq format. Plus it would enable direct upload to Bandcamp. At this point in audiotool's history it's a no-brainer
You can't upload oggs to Bandcamp though, in other words they aren't easily backwards compatible with other formats
Just looked into this a bit, for size and legal reasons the best lossless format option would probably be FLAC, since it's both compressed and lossless. Converting FLAC to WAV doesnt affect quality or data. So FLAC is just smaller files then WAV.
This would be a great thing to implement. It would make it much easier to put stuff on youtube, for one thing. At the moment I have to use a website called tunestotube to ensure that my audio isn't re-encoded, but lossless would definitely make the process easier.
FLAC would definitely be a better choice. It's about half of the size of an uncompressed PCM-format is well-documented and widely adopted.
WAV is quite a mess standard-wise: MS-centric and I don't know where to look for an official specification. Did you know you can embed a lossy MP3-audiostream within a WAV file ;)
Yes,please, FLAC is such an improvement in sound-quality. We are talking about 24bit 192kHz and around 1000-5000 kbit/s music with no compromises. 30-50mb filesize are quite normal here. MP3 is normaly 16bit 44,1kHz /128-320kbit/s while CD's have 1411kbit/s @16bit /44,1khz. Just for comparison. You can hear Lossless vs. MP3 easly, even on middleclass headphones. Come on Audiotool, brins us some serious studio-quality, please :-)
Personally, I wouldn't mind just having the options for most if not all audio formats.
It simply wouldn't make sense to support all of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_coding_formats
It's too much work (and costs for licenses) and almost no benefit.
FLAC supports everything most people require from a lossless format.
For lossy formats opus, ogg-vorbis, mp3 and aac might be a good choice.
It's kinda looked down upon when you walk into a studio with mp3's. i have to use an audio converter but even then it still isnt as good.
It doesn't make any sense to convert an mp3 into a lossless file format.
I know but when the engineer is exlecting 24 bit wav files stem'd out then you gotta do what u gotta do.
Expecting.
Converting mp3 to lossless format really makes no sense, but I get why you need that. Feels the same seeing those people cutting vinyl from a CD player...
Maybe not any of the obscure formats, but the well-known and more standard formats.
FLAC should be enough for everything.