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by dikei 1149 days ago
People stops storing music on computers, preferring streaming services instead; anyone who still does use lossless codecs like FLAC. Among the major Music streaming services, Spotify still uses both AAC and Ogg Vorbis, Apple uses AAC, Youtube uses both AAC and Opus. But users don't really need to know, they turn on the apps and the music starts.

To sum up, Opus didn't win, as in it did not replace all other lossy codecs. But it's not losing either: after all, it's the standard codec supported by all web browsers per WebRTC standard.

1 comments

Nitpick: Apple Music uses both AAC and ALAC.