Recently I switched to MP3 (specifically to V0), because of it's handiness, but I can achieve the same results with Opus at half the bitrate thus half the file size.

Pros: Good audio quality at higher bitrates, natively available in ffmpeg, good hardware supportĬons: Non-trasparent audio quality at lower bitrates (<160 kbps) Pros: Good audio quality, natively available in ffmpeg Pros: Excellent quality / compression rate, good hardware supportĬons: only available on Microsoft Windows Pros: Good audio quality, good hardware supportĬons: not available by default in ffmpeg, needs compilation from source Pros: natively available in ffmpeg, good hardware support Pros: Excellent quality / compression rate, natively available in ffmpeg My goal is to get the best quality at the lower bitrates. Since I have a lot CD's I was wondering which way was the best to rip them all. I'm currently running a Plex server, where I put all my music.

It's been 2 years since I started to get deeper with the understanding of audio codecs and which one could fit my needs, but I'm still stuck at the starting point: which one is the best?

Ffmpeg audio codecs