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Feb 23, 2026
AOM is also working on OAC, the successor to the #Opus audio codec. I’m surprised for a few reasons:
- Didn’t feel like there was any room to grow. AAC is transparent at 192k if not lower. Opus is great at 96k and hopefully transparent at some point (128k?).
- Opus has been around over a decade yet still feels like it hasn’t had its moment. It’s used in the background a lot (even at Netflix and Spotify?) but I always hesitate to share Opus because it never seems to fucking work on e.g. Discord and iOS.
- MP3 was tinkered with for decades and grew into LAME with VBR so a 20 year old codec was still fantastic.
- Opus is the greatest name for an audio codec of all time.
But I suppose AI or traditional codecs will continue to improve, especially below 96k.
https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/oac https://wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended_Settings
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