From the mid-2023(perhaps earlier) the quality of music on youtube has started to evoke some sort of visceral disgust and i've gradually stopped listening to it. Is it format changes? Did they started to compress it in another way? It is some browser-induced latency glitch(Firefox exclusive here)?
For the reference, both FLAC/mp3 and even streaming from soundcloud don't have the same visceral effect.
Perhaps it would be useful to look at which exact codecs YouTube chooses for your configuration.<p>(on desktop) Right click in the video area - "Stats for nerds" - "Codecs" (I'm not sure but I think this could be video dependent, not universal)