My question is why would anyone ever want OPUS? First, we live in a world of extremely fast network connections, and cheap huge drives! It is a day late to the compression party. I stream FLAC over my 5g mobile connection! IMHO OPUS is total garbage. I could instantly tell when my Plex trans-coded music into it. The audio loses all its dynamics. Songs sound flat and lifeless. This is why I hate PlexAmp. You have to turn off so many settings on day one, just to get rid of it’s foothold. I have edited my server profiles to disable OPUS trans-coding as best as I can.
Plex on my 4K LG TV and AppleTV support FLAC/AAC direct so OPUS is a depreciated format to me.
Most “real” modern OSes can support FLAC, AAC, and AAC multi-channel. OPUS would’ve been nice on a bandwidth and storage challenged 2017 system, but not in 2022.
Science does not support that statement.
If you did a proper ABX test you’d find that your ears don’t either.
What’s your point?
Do you want Plex to force all its users to stream full-quality flac files, even though many of those users still have
- data volume-limited tariffs
- sometimes patchy connections which simply don’t handle higher bitrates reliable enough
?
Besides, if you want to stream full quality flac files, simply tell the plex app to do so in its preferences.
