Opus and AIFF explained
Opus is the current state of the art for lossy audio, and the codec behind most voice calls you make over the internet. It performs well across an unusually wide range, from 6 kbps speech to transparent music.
AIFF is Apple's uncompressed audio format, functionally equivalent to WAV but with better metadata support and big-endian byte order.
- Where Opus files come from
- Voice and video calls, modern podcast pipelines and WebRTC.
- Where AIFF is used
- Mac audio production and older Apple software.