call me an audiophile all you want but I am currently jamming out to FLACs of the vampire survivors soundtrack and am very happy that my desktop is capable of blasting lossless audio to my headphones over bluetooth, the shittiest of all wireless protocols

also something that supremely pisses me off is that not only is LDAC a proprietary codec, but despite literally being named the lossless digital audio codec, it is literally not lossless

it's maybe lossless, relying on the connection quality to determine how much it can send over the line

and while my desktop's chunky wireless antenna is capable of broadcasting the required bitrate just fine, my phone is definitely not

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@clarfonthey iirc if your headset could decode flac the standard supports just sending the raw file to it

afaik no one implements that, I hope it becomes feasible at some point

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@noiob I mean, yeah, except bluetooth is already a notoriously bad wireless protocol to begin with and I hope that our improvements come in the form of not using it

bluetooth can often end up with around 50% packet loss on transmission which is already supremely inefficient. and considering just how much we've optimised the power usage of wireless transmission, I hope we switch to using something else moving forward

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