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The interesting part is in how actually valuable improvements are rare, while useless "improvements" are common.

I've got all music in 44.1kHz or 48kHz FLAC (only on the server, so I can transcode it to ogg opus for mobile playback reducing the space usage without lossy to lossy artifacts). Similar effects apply to many other such cases.

Audiophiles buy 10'000$ golden HDMI cables... which don't even support HDMI 2.0a. They buy gold-plated toslink cables (!)

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Is there something that does automatic transcoding? Though I can hardly give up the discovery aspect of Spotify these days...

Transcoding is a fairly common feature, although typically to mp3. I use Navidrome [0] to self-host my own music, and it lets me set up custom transcoding profiles with ffmpeg.

[0]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

That's what I was looking for, thanks!

KDE's Amarok (semi-dead project) can automatically transcode audio files if you copy them to e.g. a phone, Jellyfin (an Emby fork, which is a Plex clone) can automatically transcode files on the fly during playback.

I've simply written a small python utility to handle everything automatically.

gold plated hdmi cables add a parity bit.

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