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Type:            article
State:           [ draft ]
Title:           Audio Quality
Project:         HandBrake
Project_URL:     https://handbrake.fr/
Project_Version: 1.9.0
Language:        English
Language_Code:   en
Authors:         [ Scott (s55) ]
Copyright:       2024 HandBrake Team
License:         Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License_Abbr:    CC BY-SA 4.0
License_URL:     https://handbrake.fr/docs/license.html
---

Audio Quality
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The Audio Tracks quality settings are controlled via the "Audio" tab on the main window.

Each track can be configured to suit your needs.

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![HandBrake's Audio Track Settings](../../images/windows/audio-quality-1.8.0.png "HandBrake's Audio Track Settings")

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There are several different modes HandBrake can operate in.

### Average Bitrate

HandBrake supports average bitrate for all audio encoders except FLAC, ALAC, and TrueHD.

### Quality based Encoding

Quality based encoding is supported for the following codecs:

- AAC
- MP3
- Vorbis
- Opus

The scale of the quality if much less pronounced compared to the video quality slider, so changes do not have nearly as big an impact on file size. 

### Lossless

HandBrake supports FLAC and ALAC (both 16 and 24bit) when the output format is MKV or MP4.

In addition, HandBrake can passthru the following source audio track formats:

- AC3 and E-AC3
- DTS, DTS-HD
- TrueHD
- AAC
- MP3
- Opus
- Vorbis
- TrueHD
- FLAC
- ALAC