Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Skype's got a new audio codec that it thinks you should be pumped about, and it's called "Opus." It's been kicked around at Skype since March 2009, though work didn't begin in earnest until June of ...

Skype has unveiled more details this week regards its new codec called Opus they are developing. That once finished will provide Skype users with near CD quality sound whilst making calls. As well as ...

Earlier today, SoundCloud came under fire for reports that it had "drastically reduced" the quality of streamed audio from 128kbps MP3 to the 64 kbps Opus format. Though a lower bitrate does ...

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 ...