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CoredumpArch

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Firefox streaming vs raw audio quality

Hello,

I'm not sure where to post this type of question.

I'm thinking about writing a music player. The only question I have concerns the audio quality.

I'm thinking about having a frontend (web) and a backend service (all in localhost).

Will I have a better quality by writing the engine that reads the music or by streaming the music to the web browser (ex. Firefox) that will then read the music ? Or doesn't it matter ?

I'm thinking about using the FFMEPG library for reading the music.

Thank you very much in advance for any help

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Firefox streaming vs raw audio quality

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Professional_audio may give you some ideas/tips.

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dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

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Re: Firefox streaming vs raw audio quality

Will I have a better quality by writing the engine that reads the music or by streaming the music to the web browser (ex. Firefox) that will then read the music ?

Better than what? What is your metric of "quality"?

seth

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Re: Firefox streaming vs raw audio quality

psycho-acoustic compression will  10:1 up to 20:1 compared to PCM, decoding on the server and sending the PCM stream might run you into latency issues and also the server doesn't know the the client HW/mixer so you might have to convert the frequency on the client.

Are you aware that mpd and a metric shit-ton of clients for it exist?

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