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Jun 04, 2019
3 minutes
Sounds better
When sound apps and music players come up in your magazine, invariably there’s only mention of WAV, OGG, MP2, and/or FLAC codecs. Please do an(other) article on the Opus codec. It’s a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the net, but is also intended for storage and streaming applications.
As an IETF internet standard, Opus-encoded audio plays automatically in/, //, ), and music players (, , ). People probably don’t realise it’s what’s being used by their streaming service, webrtc app or gaming platform. There’s a site of free Opus-encoded music you can listen to at
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