I live in Texas. I get an electricity bill. I’ve never seen prices change by demand, nor have I ever heard of anyone else having it happen.

Edit: nevermind that’s a troll account

I’ve never had any issues getting mail delivered to major providers

Those are the wholesale prices to the utility company itself from the grid operators, not the prices to end users from the utility company. End users pay a flat amount per kWh that does not change by demand.

Companies cry the same way about the bills to ban end to end encryption, and they’re still bad for consumers too

Before trying the conversion, I suggest checking if you are missing a library that strawberry needs (probably libopus or libopusfile). For me, strawberry reads opus files perfectly normally, so I wonder if yours is falling back to using ffmpeg or something to decide them

If you really must convert, use Vorbis with the variable bitrate mode -q6 (or -q:a 6 option in ffmpeg) which usually ends up around 192 kbps, or push it up one more to q7 which will be a little higher. This is the level that is usually transparent, but do keep in mind that any conversion between lossy codecs is much more likely to cause perceivable loss in quality than a conversion from a lossless source. Btw opus is the direct successor to Vorbis and is superior in quality per bitrate (128k is what YouTube uses and is indistinguishable the vast majority of the time). It’s probably better than 320k mp3 at least