Any alternatives that work with iOS?
What software do you use to listen to music on your computers?
Is there a good media streaming server with iOS / desktop apps which I could use and then store FLAC on my server and have it transcoded to serve to clients?
The higher bitrates (above 128) aren't so advantageous.
https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings (Dec. 2018)
That’s just because by about 128Kbps Opus is already effectively perfect, where it takes closer to 200Kbps for MP3 to achieve that.
Opus is just all-round better than MP3.
not for compatibility. mp3 is ubiquitous. my 2017 VW can play mp3 and even flac from an sd card. i doubt it even knows what opus is.
i think you'd be hard pressed to tell a difference between a well-encoded (flac source) 192kbps vbr mp3 and 160 kbps opus. the file size of the latter will be 30% smaller.
> What software do you use to listen to music on your computers?
on windows, foobar2000. it's superb, no bs and has tons of optional plugins.
Old school. I was using that back in the early 2000s. Had a lot of fun with it. But, I've been over in Apple-land for years now... and mostly Spotify for music.