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Opus / Re: xHE-AAC : The Death of OPUS?
Last post by sld -The state of lossy music encoding is disheartening. Breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity rather than for profit, such as Vorbis and Musepack, faded before reaching an apex because the authors changed the priorities for some reason. LAME also stalled. Yet killer samples to illustrate the flaws are still here. Some audiophiles with coding skills who patched psychoacoustic models disappeared. Dear visionaries who are good at math, has your mojo dried up, swallowed up by age, illnesses, streaming services and the petty bourgeois swamp? Or are all your efforts now focused on improving hash functions and quantum-resistant cryptography? It seems that only @bryant is still kicking with the development of lossless WavPack, although we recently discussed how to refine its hybrid mode. And QOA, the only fresh lossy codec in recent times, gains no traction as if the author released it only to prove the idea of doing better than Vorbis, hoping that Public domain license would encourage others to continue the undertaking.Developers are not robots or isolated nerds/geeks.
They have lives and families. Life (and regrettably death) happens to them.
These codecs are their creation and the fruit of their efforts. If they can no longer sustain the efforts or are no longer around on earth, the right thing to do with one's hyperpassion for codecs is to pick up the skillsets where they left off and continue investing the same efforts they made. Not make a point of scolding them at every forum opportunity.