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Opus / Re: xHE-AAC : The Death of OPUS?
Last post by shadowking -The state of lossy music encoding is disheartening.Developers are not robots or isolated nerds/geeks. If they can no longer sustain the efforts … 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.
The absence of a loud and clear message expressing dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs is often mistaken for satisfaction. "People don't complain, so why bother?" And more often than not, I've seen development resume not because someone decided to dust off abandonware out of boredom, but because they faced the pain and showed empathy for those who reported how this or that change would make life easier or happier. Certainly, there are various ways to report: a hit between the eyes and a sugar-coated plea to name a few. Just as there are original editions of Mark Twain and Agatha Christie novels with words of their era like the N-word and orientals, and there are expurgated editions for a fragile, resentful mindset. For example, a few weeks ago I complained that Helix MP3 encoder, officially abandoned 20 years ago, was not capable of handling more than 16-bit input, and the miracle happened. God bless @Case for that.
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Its a catch 22 situation. With Mp3 / AAC it can work due to high user demand. With less popular codecs like mpc, WV, vorbis
the opposite can happen and already small userbase is further decimated . That may slow down development even more.