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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by cma on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:59PM (#27018952)
Re: opus

'Opus (audio format) - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Opus_(audio_format) CELT includes both spectral replication and noise generation, similar to AAC's SBR and PNS'

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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by dredmorbius on Sunday May 02, 2021 @06:11PM (#27019536)
Which would mean that at least some of the white noise signature of an opus-encoded audio track would be ... a compression or encoding artefact.

Does opus have a notion of bitrates similar to mp3 or ogg vorbis? If so, the white noise would vary among bitrates.

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