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by jchw 1712 days ago
The current state of the art is Opus, but HE-AAC is also superior, and then there’s always the appeal of lossless which is a lot more practical than it once was.
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HE-AAC is only useful at low bitrates though (below 64 kb/s), and supposedly never reaches transparency. Above that, you should use AAC-LC (or, of course, Opus if you can).

Vorbis is also notable as a better format than MP3, although that too is made obsolete by Opus.

A format which cannot deliver quality is not state of the art. Opus is the Internet Explorer 6 of musical and video formats.
Opus is an audio format, not a video format. Opus is better than MP3. Wouldn't MP3 actually be the Internet Explorer 6 of audio formats?

https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/26167/opus-vs-mp3-...

What on earh are you talking about? For lossy formats, there is currently nothing better than opus in actual use.
Are you mixing up Opus with something else? By many metrics, it is better at delivering quality than just about any other lossy audio codec.