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audacity package

Need to add Opus Support to Audacity

Bug #1064030 reported by Lonnie Lee Best
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Bug Description

Opus ( http://opus-codec.org/ ) is an open source standard to which I'd like to export my audio files.

You can fully install opus using:
sudo apt-get install opus-tools

After installing opus-tools, I don't see opus as an option in Audacity.

Since opus is an open source standard, that claims superior performance, I'd like to see it as supported export option in audacity for the upcoming Ubuntu release.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: audacity 2.0.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.27-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
AlsaCards:
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                       HDA Intel at 0xfc700000 irq 46
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 8 14:30:11 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: audacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-04 (4 days ago)

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Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote :
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In , Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Please add export/import support for the Opus audio format. Opus is
standardized and the reference implementation is provided under the 3-clause
BSD license.

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In , Gale (gale) wrote :

Rated as P5 at the moment (about half a dozen requests noted so far). There is
only limited player support on Windows (Firefox - output level cannot be
controlled except for mute - and Foobar2000). If we're going to add support we
should do it for all three platforms, I think.

Export support already exists using the Audacity command-line exporter with
opus-tools or opus sources (http://opus-codec.org/downloads/) or with FFmpeg
1.0 (if compiled with libopus).

I encoded some Opus music tracks without options, which is claimed to "produce
a very high quality encode". In my subjective opinion it sounds notably more
muddy and artifacted compared to MP3 at both vbr quality 4 and vbr 8 (where it
produces about the same file size). I assume though the point of Opus is
somewhat better quality at low delay, for streaming application?

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

opus-tools is totally unrelated to Audacity. Support for Opus needs to be implemented in Audacity and wont be ready for Ubuntu 12.10.

Changed in audacity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Gale (gale) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
VLC actually supports Opus now, but their features page does not say so.

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In , Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

I was asked to add that Amarok 2.8 also supports Opus audio.

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wonderfullifeness (wonderfullifeness) wrote :

http://www.idealshare.net/audio-converter/opus-converter.html

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In , drwt (6lobe) wrote :

I find that hard to believe as Opus has been proven to outperform MP3 in actual ABX listening tests:

http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm

http://listening-tests.hydrogenaud.io/igorc/results.html

I dont believe your anecdotal evidence should be regarded as accurate nor reliable.

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vitaly-zdanevich (vitaliy-zdanevich) wrote :

Any progress on this?

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In , James-k-crook (james-k-crook) wrote :

MOVED to wiki.

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status: Confirmed → Unknown
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status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

This version of this package will receive no further updates. Please test against a currently supported version of this package and report a new bug against that version if the bug still exists.

Changed in audacity (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Undecided
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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