User blog:Lloyd Dunamis/Ayakashi BGMs - Format Quality Change

Recent BGMs have been of high quality & bitrate. Now, what bitrate does everyone prefer for their Ayakashi BGMs? ~160kbps or -V 4, disk space saver, kinda. ~60% size of 256kbps ~192kbps or -V 2, lower sound quality than 256kbps but barely noticeable ~256kbps or -V 0, nearest sound to the original and filesized at ~30% more than 192kbps

Lately, developers of Ayakashi seem to have decided to encode the BGM composer's music to high-quality .ogg audio for Android now.

That is good, because there were a few earlier event BGMs that were based from the Android-version low-quality audio, which was cringe-y to hear. One of the BGMs that were sourced from Android then prolonged is from "Interstellar Tanabata Festival". That means it's low-quality-ish, and is currently cringe-y for me to hear, to be honest. But if its iOS version is higher-quality, we'll hear it in a nicer quality once I work on it~:

That made me assume that iOS Ayakashi BGMs will be of low quality as well. Now though, upon re-comparing all the event audio to Android & iOS version, I was mistaken: Most of the ones from iOS is encoded in high quality.

Most of the prolonged BGMs uploaded/linked to this wiki are based from the lo-qual Android one, so I am going to re-check if the iOS version has higher quality. If it is, I am going to replace it, and notify you here about which tracks were updated.

I am concerned of people being conscious of the disk space that these prolonged BGMs will occupy. For just one music, 10MB of 5-minute music doesn't sound so space-occupying, though once you collect more music at this average size, your audio library occupying a large amount of disk space will be noticeable.

So I ask for people opinions by making the poll above. You could suggest more bitrates, but I am hoping we don't go lower than 160kbps, unless the source audio is like that.

By the way, how are the formats I make it available as? I assumed that it was already sufficient enough to supply them in these 3 formats: MP3 for the general masses, MP4/M4A for iOS devices or who prefers AAC encoding, and OGG specifically for Wiki use.