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It's a lossy compression, so xiph.org's free lossless audio codec is still my #1 when it comes to audio compression: https://xiph.org/flac/

[ekimekim]

Lossless and lossy compression have different use cases. Hell, even different kinds of lossy compression could have different use cases, for example encoding for voice vs music. Though offhand I can't think of any lossy use-case which Opus is not currently best for.

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That is clear: voice over network, I don't care about some loss of fidelity, but for my audio collection, I absolutely do care.