Looks like xHE-AAC beats opus on <32 kbps/s must be important for FB at their traffic scale
Topic: A Session In The Abyss: xHE-AAC vs OPUS at 12, 24 and 32 kbps (voice & music) (Read 16655 times) https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,120997.0.html
xHE-AAC vs HE-AAC v2 Audio Quality Comparison: War of the Low-Bitrate Codecs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74SsKOUHgvo
As far as I know, xHE-AAC has no advantages over Opus, however, Opus is free from patent licensing.
Exhale - Open Source USAC / xHE-AAC encoder
Have fun downloading from Instagram or Facebook in the future. Besides VLC, what software can play this format? What does the licensing look like? Will it take 20 years until I can actually use it (at least patents weren't disneyfied)?
How long until the patents expire?
Sooo... How is the loudness management feature not just a reimplementation of "mp3 replay gain" that was introduced over 20 years ago?
Anybody else noticed that after following the link, the back button does not indicate that there is a page to go back. This is on Firefox on Linux. Wtf?
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great, thanks for using more patented crap.
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This codec isn’t supported on the web. So it is Android and iOS only. This post talks about the improved audio quality, but I don’t buy it. This was probably done to reduce storage and bandwidth, not to improve audio quality. Phone speakers aren’t good enough to notice.
Also, I wish they had backed opus…