if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?
e.g. flac for lossless audio because…
(yes you can add new categories)
summary:
- photos .jxl
- videos .av1 (someone mentioned mka or something like that, cant recall but thet mentiomed it being a ‘container’)
- daw session files .dawproject
- documents .odt
- archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
- models .gltf / .glb
- plain text utf-8
- interchange format .ora
- configuration files toml OR yaml (disagreement)
- typesetting typst
- open domain image data .exr
- lossless audio .flac
- lossy audio .opus
- subtitles srt/ass
- container mkv
Oh, yeah, not arguing that Opus is the superior format. It 100% is. Not questioning that.
Indeed, the first place that gets hit by lower bitrates with MP3 is high frequencies. MP3 does have a pretty harsh cutoff at very high frequencies… that the vast majority of equipment can’t reproduce and most ears can’t hear. It’s relatively debated, some claim to be able to “feel” the overtones or something like that. I’m extremely sceptical, if I’m being honest. Last time I did the test - must have been a decade ago - I couldn’t distinguish lossless and high bitrate MP3 any more accurately than a coin toss.