The makers of the AV1 video format have started the Open Audio Codec.

The IETF has standardized the Opus lossy audio codec as RFC 6716. While most audio codecs aim to solve specific problems—relatively high bit-rate music reproduction such as AAC and MP3, low latency ...

Following yesterday’s celebration of Firefox 15 beta, which is said to fix the browser’s long maligned memory leak issues, Mozilla announced that it will support the Opus audio codec going forward, ...

The developer version of Chrome now relies by default on Opus, a royalty-free audio compression technology designed for voice and music. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

There are probably a billion devices that, right now, run AAC and MP3, as lossy codecs. There have been tens of billions of songs downloaded in those formats. Unless companies that sell music in those ...