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Versions 1.1 released

5 December, 2013

After more than two years of development, we have released Opus 1.1. This includes:

• new analysis code and tuning that significantly improves encoding quality, especially for variable-bitrate (VBR),
  
• automatic detection of speech or music to decide which encoding mode to use,
  surround with good quality at 128 kbps for 5.1 and usable down to 48 kbps, and


• speed improvements on all architectures, especially ARM, where decoding uses around 40% less CPU and encoding uses around 30% less CPU.

These improvements are explained in more details in Monty's demo (updated from the 1.1 beta demo).

speed improvements on all architectures

I remember how in '98 or so I was rather ticked off that there was some software that required an Intel Pentium 2 processor with MMX technology in order to run at all. Up to that moment I'd been able to run just about everything on my P100, even if slower and/or uglier. Or is that a different MMX?

Back on topic, in a manner of speaking, DeaDBeeF 0.6.0 was released last month with Opus support. Despite giving it second place in my audio player line-up, it's been my default music player pretty much since I wrote that blog post.

There has never been a Pentium II without MMX

I pretty much stopped listening to anything years ago, except occasionally on the phone, so I didn't pay much attention to audio players. Since old habits tend to stick I'm still kinda partial to xmms

Part of me wishes for the open codec to become more popular. But do we really need surround at 128 kBit/s today!? I'm afraid that news articles like these will suggest to content providers that such castrated sound is acceptable.

Quote from: Macallan on 2013-12-10, 19:31:27

There has never been a Pentium II without MMX

I didn't mean to imply there was; in any case my CPU didn't have MMX.

Quote from: Macallan on 2013-12-10, 19:31:27

I pretty much stopped listening to anything years ago, except occasionally on the phone, so I didn't pay much attention to audio players. Since old habits tend to stick I'm still kinda partial to xmms

Winamp. It really stopped whipping the llama's ass… well, also a couple of weeks ago.

I don't listen to much music either anymore, but I do have an interest in higher quality than the artifact-ridden junk many people listen to. Nor do I understand why studios sometimes mix the @#$%@# out of what could've been a perfectly nice CD.

I don't listen to much music either anymore, but I do have an interest in higher quality than the artifact-ridden junk many people listen to. Nor do I understand why studios sometimes mix the @#$%@# out of what could've been a perfectly nice CD.

Quote from: Frenzie

I don't listen to much music either anymore, but I do have an interest in higher quality than the artifact-ridden junk many people listen to. Nor do I understand why studios sometimes mix the @#$%@# out of what could've been a perfectly nice CD.

Pop and Hip-Hop are notorious for running everything through Autotune to such an extent that the singer's voice no longer sounds human. I forgot who the singer was, but a co-worker decided to torture me by playing some songs and there were so many filters applied that singer sounded robotic.

Pop and Hip-Hop are notorious for running everything through Autotune to such an extent that the singer's voice no longer sounds human. I forgot who the singer was, but a co-worker decided to torture me by playing some songs and there were so many filters applied that singer sounded robotic.

(by chance I happened to stumble upon a mobile phone which could receive most stations in good stereo with a headphones cable)

Is Opera and Opium capable of playing Ogg/Opus files? I suppose Opera isn't since it is a new standard. But in Opium 19 too, the player shows up on application/ogg files, but playback doesn't start. Do I need to declare a specific MIME?

Cellphones might have radio, but I didn't expect it to be any good.

Do any of these files play for you?