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by ekimekim 3621 days ago
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.