Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @10:04AM from the sounds-like-work dept.

New submitter jmv writes "It's official. The Opus audio codec is now standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state-of-the-art, fully Free and Open audio codec ratified by a major standards organization. Better, Opus covers basically the entire audio-coding application space and manages to be as good or better than existing proprietary codecs over this whole space. Opus is the result of a collaboration between Xiph.Org, Mozilla, Microsoft (yes!), Broadcom, Octasic, and Google. See the Mozilla announcement and the Xiph.Org press release for more details."

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Re:Oh boy! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-11 11:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

Audiophiles? Really? The only format they care about is original wax drums rubbed with a diamond and amplified by analog equipment connected by gold cables soaked in unicorn tears. They want nothing to do with digital audio codecs.
Not any more. Have a look at a few audiophile forums - some have sections devoted to setting up high quality systems to play high bitrate audio files encoded in (eg) FLAC or Apple Lossless (whatever it's called). There's products like Pure Music that improve iTunes playback considerably and can import FLAC into iTunes. And very high quality USB sound cards for laptops eg CEntrance DACPort.