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#AudioMo: Here are a collection of animal sounds from #ZSL London Zoo, recorded on May 22 and June 14 2017, respectively.
When you hear the Macaw parrots repeated, this is the second recording.

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Note: #Mastodon *needs* a better mp3 encoder. Bloody friggin hell on a pike!

Patrick Perdue

@FreakyFwoof Why, yes, yes it does, but the mp3 encoder Mastodon uses is part of other libraries. You, as an instance admin, can't just swap it out for another one, so I'm told.

@BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof you can relatively easily swap out ffmpeg, so if an encoder you want works with ffmpeg, it'll be relatively easy to switch to.

@talon @BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof Doesn't it already use LAME, though? Which is basically the best MP3 encoder already? Just bad settings?

@BorrisInABox @talon @FreakyFwoof Yeah, which is FFmpeg. It's using a codec inside that, which the default is LAME I think. The alternative would be libshine which nobody in their right mind would use.

@x0 @talon @FreakyFwoof I used libshine on a Raspberry Pi Zero for a while, but then determined that even on that hardware, there was no reason not to use Lame.