This is what happens when you transcode the same audio file 4 times with @ffmpeg AAC, vs. libfdk_aac, at 128kbps (the docs say it's better than libfdk_aac at that bitrate): https://mrcn.st/t/orig_ffmpeg_fdk_4x.wav …
looping {1 bar lossless - 1 bar ffmpeg - 1 bar fdk}
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By the way, I do not consider it acceptable to recommend the AAC encoder if it has this kind of generational loss. Transcoding is *very* common. People *should* be afraid to use it if it's going to do this to audio when transcoding. We live in a remix culture.
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On top of that, 1-gen losses are bad enough compared to ffaac that I believe multi-generation tesets are a good proxy for the overall quality difference. It's not just a case of "fdk knows not to throw away more data on subsequent encodes". Both compound, ffaac is just worse.
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