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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
=============================
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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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