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On Zoom you can activate raw, non-preprocessed sound. (I never tried it and don't know whether it works well for music)

Bear (rar!) in mind this will only work if you have the uplink bandwidth to do so.

"High"-bitrate lossy CBR compression is probably acceptable enough — at least compared with a voice codec! mp3 at max (320) is only 320 kB/s, doesn't have the security issues that variable-bitrate compression does, and preserves audio "ok" (it does delete the high frequencies above 20-22 kHz). No patent issues anymore, either.

Ogg-Vorbis may be an even better option for all kinds of reasons, but mp3 is more universally recognized.

MP3 and Vorbis have bad latency.

There's not much reason not to use Opus, which has better quality/bitrate and lower latency.

That is a perfectly acceptable solution as well!

Supposedly Opus supersedes all other codecs at all bit rates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#/media/Fil...

It should be a matter of giving it enough bandwidth and let it make good decisions based on that.

Awesome! I've been wondering how to do this, since I normally take calls in a quiet room with headphones, so there's no need for noise canceling. It would be nice if you could enable this on a per-call basis, though.

Here is how to enable this Zoom feature ("Preserve Original Sound"):

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115003279466-Prese...

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