Comments on: Open audio codec Opus gets real, gains VLC support http://gigaom.com/2012/10/18/opus-codec-vlc/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sam http://gigaom.com/2012/10/18/opus-codec-vlc/#comment-1091805 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:19:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=575068#comment-1091805 The X Lossless Decoder (XLD) on Mac OS X released an update last week that includes native support for creating Opus files (the previous release supported Opus via a plugin). This lets you easily transcode from various formats and keep all your tags (including FLAC cover art).

Streaming radio is another area ripe for a better codec but, considering how many streams are still using MP3 (even though most streaming clients support at least Ogg Vorbis), i’m not sure how big the take up will be.

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