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if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because...

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
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[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Some sort of machine-readable format for invoices and documents with related purposes (offers, bills of delivery, receipts,...) would be useful to get rid of some more of the informal paper or PDF human-readable documents we still use a lot. Ideally something JSON-based, perhaps with a cryptographic signature and encryption layer around it.

[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

This one exists. SEPA or ISO20022. Encryption/signing isn't included in the format, it's managed on transfer layer, but that's pretty much the standard every business around here works and many don't even accept PDFs or other human-readable documents anymore if you want to get your money.

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[-] Krafting@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

.dontuse for snaps

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

i hate to be that guy, but pick the right tool for the right job. use markdown for a readme and latex for a research paper. you dont need to create 'the ultimate file format' that can do both, but worse and less compatible

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[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

i'd like there to be a way to standardise midi info in plugins for music

[-] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

.mom for ascii written Your Mom jokes.

Open Raster as an interchange format instead of PSDs. It would be nice if I could open the same file in GIMP or Krita that I can in Photoshop.

[-] barrett9h@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

192 kHz for music.

The CD was the worst thing to happen in the history of audio. 44 (or 48) kHz is awful, and it is still prevalent. It would be better to wait a few more years and have better quality.

[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

I assume you're gonna back that up with a double blind ABX test?

[-] carloshr@feddit.cl 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

44 KHz wasn't chosen randomly. It is based in the range of frequencies that humans can hear (20Hz to 20KHz) and the fact that a periodic waveform can be exactly rebuild as the original (in terms of frequency) when sampling rate is al least twice the bandwidth. So, if it is sampled at 44KHz you can get all components up to 22 KHz whics is more that we can hear.

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