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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by nvmc on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @10:58PM (#4508913)
I should have worded my comment better. I mean that adoption by hardware manufacturers will be slow. What's the incentive? Even for a firmware patch? MP3 is `good enough', and everyone already uses it.
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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by iSnow on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @05:20AM (#4509844)
Opus is royalty-free, in contrast to mp3. And it will be used in WebRTC. I can see some devices picking up Opus to support WebRTC and possibly some (not portable music players, obviously) dropping mp3.

Obviously neither you nor I have a crystal ball, but I see Opus as the PNG of audio codecs - not displacing the lousy but entrenched de-facto standard (GIF/mp3), but slowly taking over at the technological edge.

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