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Ryan on Nostr: WAV is also huge. At least use a lossless codec like FLAC. That will cut the size in ...

WAV is also huge. At least use a lossless codec like FLAC. That will cut the size in half.

WAV will rape people's data plans, and most users won't notice the difference in quality. A high bitrate mp3 or AAC will be enough for 95% of users, and use 20% of the bandwidth.

Most music services serve multiple bitrate streams, so users can select the tradeoff they want, bandwidth vs quality.