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iOS 11 and Android Spearhead Universal Support For Opus Audio Codec, MP3’s Overdue Successor
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iOS 11 and Android Spearhead Universal Support For Opus Audio Codec, MP3’s Overdue Successor

September 12, 2017
It has been 24 years since MP3 originally released, and despite many efforts by various groups over the years to replace it (with attempts such as Vorbis, AAC, WMA, and others), no one has succeeded yet, but that may be changing. Unlike with video codecs, people are no longer directly searching for a royalty free...
Opus 1.2 Codec Arrives on Your Phone: High Quality Audio at 32 kbps
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Opus 1.2 Codec Arrives on Your Phone: High Quality Audio at 32 kbps

July 7, 2017
The Xiph.Org Foundation just announced their latest improvement to the Opus audio codec with the release of their libopus 1.2 encoder. With this latest improvement, Xiph.Org has managed to make Opus usable for fullband stereo audio at just 32 kb/s, which will pair well with the upcoming royalty-free AV1 video format in the WebM container...