Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta

This codec isn’t supported on the web. So it is Android and iOS only. This post talks about the improved audio quality, but I don’t buy it. This was probably done to reduce storage and bandwidth, not to improve audio quality. Phone speakers aren’t good enough to notice.<p>Also, I wish they had backed opus…

Looks like xHE-AAC beats opus on &lt;32 kbps&#x2F;s must be important for FB at their traffic scale<p>Topic: A Session In The Abyss: xHE-AAC vs OPUS at 12, 24 and 32 kbps (voice &amp; music) (Read 16655 times) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hydrogenaud.io&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;topic,120997.0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hydrogenaud.io&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;topic,120997.0.html</a><p>xHE-AAC vs HE-AAC v2 Audio Quality Comparison: War of the Low-Bitrate Codecs <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=74SsKOUHgvo">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=74SsKOUHgvo</a>

As far as I know, xHE-AAC has no advantages over Opus, however, Opus is free from patent licensing.

Exhale - Open Source USAC &#x2F; xHE-AAC encoder<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;ecodis&#x2F;exhale" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;ecodis&#x2F;exhale</a>

Have fun downloading from Instagram or Facebook in the future. Besides VLC, what software can play this format? What does the licensing look like? Will it take 20 years until I can actually use it (at least patents weren&#x27;t disneyfied)?

How long until the patents expire?

Sooo... How is the loudness management feature not just a reimplementation of &quot;mp3 replay gain&quot; that was introduced over 20 years ago?

Anybody else noticed that after following the link, the back button does not indicate that there is a page to go back. This is on Firefox on Linux. Wtf?<p>[edited: punctuation]

great, thanks for using more patented crap.

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