FLAC VS Opus Interactive Audio Codec

The Xiph.org foundation maintains FLAC and they have a list of tools that might be helpful. Source: 11 months ago

Lastly, ALAC hasn't been updated by apple since 2016. FLAC is actively maintained by xiph.org and saw its last update this past October. Source: over 1 year ago

Excessive licensing costs weren’t the only concern surrounding MQA though. MQA is touted as being DRM free, with audio streams able to be stored in the very popular, open source FLAC format. Only the lower resolution 16-bit audio is truly DRM free however. MQA’s authentication watermarking must be present in the file, and properly validated at playback, otherwise MQA decoders will refuse to unfold the audio to... Source: over 1 year ago

FLAC continues to be actively maintained and updated. Which, actually thanks for asking your question because in checking sources I noticed FLAC was just updated not two weeks ago. I thik the last time I updated my encoder libraries was after MP3 lost patent protection and dropped licensing a few years ago, so this is fortuitous timing! Anyways, FLAC continues to be meaningfully updated (homepage @ xiph and the... Source: over 1 year ago

There are lossless audio compression standards such as FLAC. Source: over 2 years ago

Could anyone help me get a disk image files for older Global Underground CDs? I encoded my old CDs into subpar mp3 files, and I'd now like to have high-quality Opus encodings and experiment across various bitrates. Source: about 1 year ago

Presumably, OP is referring to the Opus audio codec versus Dolby's AC3 codec. Source: about 1 year ago

If there are multiple tags with the same name, Ffmpeg will only use the last tag. If you really need to have multiple tags with the same name in your OPUS files, use opusenc instead (https://opus-codec.org/). Beware that some playback software does not display multiple artists gracefully. Source: over 1 year ago

AFAIK ogg isn't really suitable for low latency audio streaming. Consider the Opus codec instead. Source: over 1 year ago

> The only reason you wouldn't use HEVC is if your hardware lacks support No, the main problem with HEVC is that it is not licensed under royalty-free terms. In contrast, almost all commonly used internet formats and protocols are licensed under royalty-free terms so everyone is free to use and implement them without paying a licensing fee. Video has been an anomaly. Imagine if HTML wasn't licensed under... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago