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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by ZoFreX on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @07:24AM (#4510120)
If you were using AAC (or anything else that's more advanced than MP3) a 3MB file would actually be listenable for a short song.

A 150MB FLAC file would be about 20-30 minutes long (based on a typical bitrate of 700-1000 kilobits per second).

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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by masklinn on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @09:57AM (#4510657)
> If you were using AAC (or anything else that's more advanced than MP3) a 3MB file would actually be listenable for a short song.

Even mp3 works for "a short song", that's not the context of my comment though, its context is a 150MB FLAC file (~300MB bitstream) recompressed to 3MB with Opus.

> A 150MB FLAC file would be about 20-30 minutes long

A point I noted in my comment.

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Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard by ZoFreX on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @11:51AM (#4511218)
Oops, I misread your comment quite heavily. Apologies for the extremely redundant follow-up!
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