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Opus - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Opus

Opus - Hydrogenaudio

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HydrogenAudio

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NF: Audio File Format, Opus - Google Docs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DnD1eoDleJ3rmclV4Is9-1M-j2SE4Gl6833wkij-cvc/edit?usp=sharing#!

Hydrogen

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Which Audio Codec/Bitrate Relationship delivers best Audio ...

https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/80790/which-audio-codec-bitrate-relationship-delivers-best-audio-quality-128-kbit-s-m

A taste of what the results of that might look like is the Hydrogen audio multiformat listening comparison. Honestly, though: I have yet to personally meet anything were I can tell 192 kbps HE-AAC from uncompressed audio. I wouldn't throw away my CDs after saving 64 kb/s Opus, though. So that's a subjective hand-waving answer.

High-Quality, Low-Delay Music Coding in the Opus …

https://www.opus-codec.org/static/presentations/opus_celt_aes135.pdf

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Ogg Vorbis best bitrate | Steve Hoffman Music Forums

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ogg-vorbis-best-bitrate.284426/

There's many, many discussions comparing different compression rates and lossless formats on the Hydrogen Audio Forums. To me, the answer is, use multiple players, or get a player with much more capacity. I continue to be stymied that Apple won't release a 128GB portable solid-state player. Having said that, my hard drive-based 160GB iPods do ...