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Stepping Away from Streaming with the Snowsky Echo Digital Audio Player (gardinerbryant.com)

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[–] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

Opus (and its predecessor Vorbis) is intended for telephony. It's compression algorithm is optimised for low latency encoding of speech.

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[–] blackbeans@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 months ago

Opus is a hybrid codec, it combines codecs for both speech and higher quality audio/music.

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