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don't forget also that youtube is streaming audio at 128kbps. the mix would very likely sound different from a wave file.
This used to be true at one time, but the last few years has seen a dramatic improvement in the audio stream quality of YouTube. In fact a 720p/1080p upload like this one streams at a cool 384 kbps, and not only that but it's AAC encoding as well which is vastly superior than MP3 at the same bitrate. You can find the info here:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171
It's for this reason that I cannot understand why people still instinctively reach for Soundcloud to host their music - it only streams at 128kbps.
correct, but the link that Rimshot first posted takes the user to a default of 480p and 128kbps. if you don't change the default when it appears on your screen and starts playing, then that's what you get.
Yeah the first thing I do when a YouTube video loads is to change the bitrate to the highest available. I'm pretty sure that there's an option to select "highest available" by default, but like many of the YouTube options it doesn't work properly. Maybe I'll check it out again seeing as how Google are changing the YouTube layout and options like 60 billion times a week.