Skip to content(if available)orjump to list(if available)

YouTube Audio Quality – How Good Does It Get?

YouTube Audio Quality – How Good Does It Get?

4 comments

·February 1, 2025
Visit

cf100clunk

From 2022, but still worthwhile analysis.

londons_explore

Youtube probably have stats on viewer-happyness vs bitrate.

I would take a guess that a higher bitrate = longer loading times, and viewers care far more about an extra few second of buffering than they care about audio quality, especially when they don't have the original to compare to.

echoangle

Couldn’t you do adaptive Bitrate and start streaming low-bitrate for a few seconds and then switch to higher quality once the video is already playing?

jeffbee

This kind of analysis is interesting but must be considered rapidly outdated since we won't know what's changing behind the scenes at YouTube. Have they ever revealed whether their VCU handles the audio?