Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

Barix, known for products capable of bringing high-quality audio across IP networks, has introduced a new second model in its SIP Opus Codec family of Audio over IP transport solutions. The M400 SIP ...

High quality audio links used to come with a high price tag, but Barix’s latest encoder/decoder is changing that. The affordable SIP Opus Codec is engineered to let broadcasters maximize quality for ...

Earlier today, SoundCloud came under fire for reports that it had “drastically reduced” the quality of streamed audio from 128kbps MP3 to the 64 kbps Opus format. Though a lower bitrate does ...

In the iOS 12.2 beta, Apple has improved the quality of the audio messages sent in the Messages app after switching to a new Opus codec at 24000 Hz, up from the previously used AMR codec at 8000 Hz.

Microsoft is playing nicely with Google. At least, Microsoft is adding support for two Google-supported, open source video codecs: WebM and VP9. Both will be included in an upcoming update for the ...

A company based in Singapore, Radioactive, claims to have the first Opus digital audio algorithm encoder available. Called Xeocoder, it is a streaming codec optimized for work with HTML5 and hence, ...