WAV is also huge. At least use a lossless codec like FLAC. That will cut the size in half.
WAV will rape people's data plans, and most users won't notice the difference in quality. A high bitrate mp3 or AAC will be enough for 95% of users, and use 20% of the bandwidth.
Most music services serve multiple bitrate streams, so users can select the tradeoff they want, bandwidth vs quality.
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I don’t know how Wavlake does it. I dont see an option in the settings. MP3 the quality suffers
They will compress it somehow. WAV is about 800 mb per hour. AAC is the standard now, rather than mp3 for most services that stream. It should be well supported on all devices.
Looks like wavlake uses mp3.
^ This. FLAC can get up to 60% smaller and I think has pretty good support for metadata.
But for listening the difference between 256Kbps-384Kbps Opus or AAC, and 16 or 24 bit FLAC/WAV is indistinguishable.
It's good for archival though as you avoid generational loss if you want to transcode your library to another format to use in your media server.
Yeah what the cat with the high IQ said ☝️
