Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Opus is better in every way

  Except ubiquitousness.

  I can play an MP3 on any digital audio device made in the last 20 years.

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  • DavidDoesLemmy@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    True. All my devices support it, but many older ones may not.

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ubiquitousness is not an aspect of the codec, let alone a technical one. It’s yet another failure of capitalism.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I use a combination of mp3s and opus primarily but I can’t remember if opus is the open format ogg or not.

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  • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t know all the details but Ogg is dead, and Opus has all the advantages from low quality (Speex) to high quality (better than Ogg). It’s made by the same guys anyway. And starting at 128 kbps approximatively, it’s “near perfect” quality which means your ears won’t detect the difference with FLAC. So: as small as MP3, as good as FLAC. I love that stuff.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And what’s the extension of opus? .opus?

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      • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes.

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    • DavidDoesLemmy@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I personally can’t hear any difference with 96kbps Opus.

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