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Lossy Audio Compression => Opus => Topic started by: MiGamer5 on 2020-09-25 13:25:48

Title: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: MiGamer5 on 2020-09-25 13:25:48
I need a clear information which one sounds better??
OPUS or WMA ??

I have a lot of songs in FLAC. I need to convert those files.

Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: korth on 2020-09-25 14:06:26
You should perform your own listening test (https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Listening_Tests).
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Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: saratoga on 2020-09-26 16:42:25
WMA is a more than 20 year old format that hasn't been developed in over 15 years. It's not likely to be the best at anything.
Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: binaryhermit on 2020-09-26 18:15:31
I mean, is WMA even better than "state of the art" mp3 at this point (which really hasn't advanced much if at all in the last 10+ years either)
Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: zordaz on 2020-09-27 10:32:16
Indeed, the best thing you could do is your own listening test at a given bitrate. As Opus is an open codec and developed actively and WMA is proprietary and not developed anymore, my advice is to not even consider WMA. But I am of course not familiar with you own considerations/use cases.
Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: rutra80 on 2020-09-27 13:28:26
Opus is the best at low bitrates. At mid-high bitrates they should perform similarly. Opus is quite a standard today and widely compatible. WMA is pretty much dead and being phased out.
Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: Kamedo2 on 2020-09-28 20:15:20
AAC-LC is a better choice.

(https://listening-test.coresv.net/img2/wma1c.png)
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=102875.msg988476#msg988476

And Opus is even superior.

(https://listening-test.coresv.net/s/scores_by_tracks_en.png)
https://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm

If your device only supports MP3/WMA, WMA is worth consideration.
If your device supports AAC, AAC is the preferred option.
It's your choice.
Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: Porcus on 2020-09-29 09:18:42
Why would an end-user encode to WMA by now? Must be if they have some hardware (an in-car unit?) that doesn't support anything else?
Title: Re: OPUS vs WMA - Which one sounds better ?
Post by: binaryhermit on 2020-09-29 20:15:48
Even then I suspect you're probably better off with mp3