Top 15 Opus Interactive Audio Codec Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, but also intended for storage and streaming applications. It is standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as RFC 6716 which incorporated technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec.

Technology

Opus can handle a wide range of audio applications, including Voice over IP, videoconferencing, in-game chat, and even remote live music performances. It can scale from low bit-rate narrowband speech to very high quality stereo music. Supported features are:

1. Vorbis

Vorbis Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to,......

2. FLAC

FLAC FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio,......

3. Apple Lossless

Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a – this extension is also used by Apple for AAC audio data in an MP4 container......

4. LAME

LAME LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. It is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR. Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably making LAME the only MP3 encoder still being actively developed.Mike Cheng started it......

5. TAK

TAK »TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is, as the name already suggests, a lossless audio compressor, similar to FLAC, WavPack and Monkey’s Audio. On average, lossless compression reduces the file size to about 50 percent of the original size; however the compression can vary between......

6. WavPack

WavPack WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new version 4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled performance and functionality.WavPack features include:- Compatible......

7. Extended Media Scanner

Extended Media Scanner A scanner to scan FLAC or cue sheet music files and add them to Android's database. Android "features" the annoying limitation of not being able to properly handle FLAC tags. This application allows to work around the issue, have your players properly index your FLAC albums. You need Meridian Media......

8. dPod

dPod dPod is a podcatcher for Android platform. It’s aimed to be full featured and easy to use mobile podcasting client. Application is currently in beta and we greatly appreciate any feedback and suggestions.You can vote for new features on http://dpod.uservoice.com You can also use dPod Google group to discuss......

9. Tunesify

Tunesify Tunesify is the simplest way to convert almost any audio file into formats supported by iTunes, iPods and iPhones. Tunesify can convert FLAC, Windows Media Audio, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio and many more. Lossless formats, such as FLAC, can be converted to Apple Lossless, which preserves the true CD-quality......

10. NodeBeat

NodeBeat Make music with NodeBeat, the intuitive and fun visual music app for all ages. Whether you're 5 or 105, NodeBeat will make you sound like a pro.Create your own music in a matter of minutes or listen to NodeBeat generate its own. Easily share your creations with others or save......

11. Flinger

Flinger Flinger is a program for synthesizing singing voice from a MIDI file input.......

12. FStream

FStream FStream is a little WebRadio listener/recorder software.Functionalities- Decode MP3, AAC/AAC+, OGG Vorbis, WMA (via MMS) audio formats- Recognition of M3U/PLS/ASX playlists- Record streams in MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF on Mac- Record streams in WAV, AIFF on iPhone- Export recordings from iPhone to Mac via Wi-Fi FTP- Display of song/artist metadata-......

13. Pazera MP4 to MP3

Pazera MP4 to MP3 Pazera MP4 to MP3 is a free program that converts MP4, M4A, M4B and AAC files into MP3 or WAV. Metadata (tags) from the source files are copied to the output MP3 files.The most important featuresConverting MP4, M4A, M4B and AAC files to MP3 or WAV.MP3 compression using the latest......

14. Mopidy

Mopidy Mopidy is a music server which can play music from Spotify , or from your local hard drive. You can use your favorite MPD client to search for music and manage the playlist.......

15. Mesk

Mesk Features Audio: Formats supported: mp3, ogg vorbis. (Thanks to GStreamer, other formats may work but are not yet officially supported.) The basics: play, pause, stop, next, and previous audio tracks. CD audio support for all your CD drives. Album information is fetched from freeDB. HTTP support, including basic authentication.......