That version also contains a fix for a minor issue (see ), plus you don't have to apply nu774's patches anymore. Thanks, all, for your comments on exhale and my work! For the record, I pushed a fix to the current release today (commit 7135623a) which recovers the encoding speed of version 1.0.0 but keeps the slightly improved segmental SNR of 1.0.1 (the encoder is still pretty slow, though). IMO this very low bitrate like he-aac opus should not be touched except for very specific cases where compression 1st might be acceptable - voice / news / podcast etc. I like to see people with a quality 1st approach. I would like to see more in this area and even mid-high bitrate lossy (for streaming metered connections). I will go further that at home with unmetered connections lossless audio should be used (local and streaming).

Below 100k lossy becomes complex in decoding, stereo imaging, too aggressive psychoacoustics. Let's hope that ffmpeg will support xHE decoding soonish. Instead of wasting time on a high number of low-bitrate tools (those rates aren't a target nowdays) it's a wise decision to concentrate on high and middle rates those actually count. VBR mode 1(lowest) result in like 64kbps. Quote from: nu774 on 13:52:02 As is written in README, exhale doesn't target low bitrate ranges. On the contrary 32-64 or maybe 16-64 sounds like a better target. Not that there is no room of improvement but it's definitely not a 'struggling range' per se. So in the case of xHE-AAC the whole idea of it's existance is targeting bitrates where other existing codecs are struggling, and 64Kbps+ bitrate ranges are not one of them. So unless something extremelly revolutional happens in the computing world, focus on lowering bitrates on any type of media content is always the best interest of any healthy and self respecting project. You see through a quite narrow lens which is like personal use, which can still be argued that people still care about really low bitrates hence low bitrates are, will and should be a target, but on a wider lens like big companies, radio stations, streaming services and the list goes on, care alot on reducing their bandwith and storage footprint because on a larger scale the slightest saving you can do has a massive impact on your running costs and profit. I still think that low bit rates are, will and should be a target.

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