Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different
- Last year, SoundCloud upgraded its AAC encoder for the first time in over a decade.
- The new one (Fraunhofer’s libfdk_aac) delivers higher perceptual audio quality across every metric we track.
- But if you look at a spectrogram, you may notice something unexpected.
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- Last year, SoundCloud upgraded its AAC encoder for the first time in over a decade.
- The new one (Fraunhofer’s libfdk_aac) delivers higher perceptual audio quality across every metric we track.
- But if you look at a spectrogram, you may notice something unexpected.
Sources: Soundcloud