Conceivably, you don't have to use EOF's wav file to make the wem. You should be able to rip to a 48k .wav file instead of an mp3. Use an audio editor to add the leading silence. Convert that as an .mp3 (or directly as an .ogg) to use with EOF. But instead of using EOF's resulting .wav to create the .wem, use your own - you could set it as high as you like in that case.

 

That's what I do.  Open the mp3 up in Audacity, add leading silence and export a .wav to bring into EOF and an .ogg to bring into Wwise.

 

That said, maybe it's because I play through whatever headphones I can find or the years of listening to old blues and old time recordings that sound like they were recorded to wax cylinder, but I'm no audiophile and I think this is a non-issue.  I haven't downloaded a custom yet that I thought had a bad sounding recording.

Very interesting topic 🙂

strangely I feel like with speakers RS sounds very bad (maybe that is the quality of it), for some reason it is better with headphone.

Regarding mp3 quality… some people apparently don’t hear the difference between good and bad music just sayin’ 😉

Unfortunately as time goes on getting music from your average stream is getting more and more the only viable option.

Given that youll get a 128Kbs mp3 and itll sound ok. Keeping it at that rate sounds like this conversation suggests you set wwise to 6-8.

does that sound about right?