For those with lower data plans, this can shrink files down to 10% of original size, depending on original compression.
Why podcasts: These are usually long audio files with lots of talking. Using higher compression rate does not affect
listening to podcast, because one just needs to understand words. Where with music,
the experience is very much affected, if high compression is used.
Also using newer codec OPUS gives us better quality of music at same size.
Examples
- MP3 128 Kbps (481.3)
- OPUS 64 Kbps (235.4)
- OPUS 32 Kbps (129.1)
- OPUS 24 Kbps (94.5)
- OPUS 16 Kbps (62.3)