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Topic: Getting the most out of my flac library with bluetooth (Read 831 times) previous topic - next topic
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Getting the most out of my flac library with bluetooth

My music library consists of 1600+ songs, 98% of which are flacs I got from Qobuz, Tidal, and Amazon Music. The other 2% are mp3, opus, m4a. The flacs range from 16 to 24 bits and from 44.1 to 48 kHz. I also used foobar2000 to apply ReplayGain tags, so my volume is normalized.

I want to listen to them using Bluetooth, regardless of its inherit issues with quality audio playback. I don't want to switch to wired headphones, I don't want to use DACs or amps, or anything similar.

My android device currently runs on Android 14, One UI 6.1, and supports LDAC. My headphones (JLab Epic Lab Edition) also support LDAC, and have an EQ that Knowles made specifically for these headphones (which is turned on through the JLab app). I also run an app that forces the LDAC setting in android developer options to always be on "optimized for audio quality" (over 900kbps output).

I understand that LDAC is not lossless, and that I'll never get "bit perfect" over Bluetooth, but is this the best I can get given what I want to use?

I use the Poweramp music player, which utilizes the SoX resampler (on very high quality, 99% cutoff, no dither), I use no Direct Volume Control, and I use AAudio output (which should bypass the default android audio processing).

If anyone has any other suggestions about getting more out of my library, I'm all ears. I'm still pretty new to all this, but I want to learn and enjoy myself.

Re: Getting the most out of my flac library with bluetooth

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Are you experiencing any problems with the audio quality? I think you've answered all your own questions. Don't get so tied down in bitrates etc. I use wired headphones, Westone W60, with Poweramp also but have 25000+ tracks all encoded to ogg, do I think I can hear a difference if they were lossless? No :D