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Tomorrow (Monday 26th June) Hydrogenaud.io will go down for approximately 30 minutes. This is to transfer it to a backup server as the server it is currently running on is showing early signs of reliability issues.

Any issues please post here so they can be tracked and responded to quickly.

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This Opus 1.2 major release brings many quality improvements, new features, and bug fixes. You can read all the details in this release demo page. Changes since 1.1.x include:

• Speech quality improvements especially in the 12-20 kbit/s range
• Improved VBR encoding for hybrid mode
• More aggressive use of wider speech bandwidth, including fullband speech starting at 14 kbit/s
• Music quality improvements in the 32-48 kb/s range
• Generic and SSE CELT optimizations
• Support for directly encoding packets up to 120 ms
• DTX support for CELT mode
• SILK CBR improvements
• Support for all of the fixes in draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-06 (the mono downmix and the folding fixes need --enable-update-draft)
• Many bug fixes, including integer wrap-arounds discovered through fuzzing (no security implications)

There are no known regressions compared to the latest stable release (1.1.5). Please report any problems.

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After 4 years of development, version 3.14 of the open source digital audio player operating system Rockbox has been released. 

Some new things since version 3.13:

• Ipod Nano 2G, Sansa Fuze+, Sony NWZ E360/E370/E380, Creative Zen Mozaic, Zen X-Fi, Zen X-Fi 3, Zen X-Fi Style, Samsung YH-820, YH-920 and YH-925 are now stable
• Greatly improved USB support on the Ipod Nano 2G, Ipod Classic, Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2
• Battery life on Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2 is approximately doubled
• New DSP effects including Haas effect surround sound, perceptual bass enhancement, and fatigue reduction
• Configurable master sampling rate and new resampler
• Improved Opus and SPC performance and compatibility
• Improved file browser and music database performance
• Several new games and plugins

See full release notes: 3.14