vorbis VS libopenaptx

Compare vorbis vs libopenaptx and see what are their differences.

libopenaptx

Open Source implementation of Audio Processing Technology codec (aptX) (by pali)
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vorbis libopenaptx
1 4
441 119
0.9% -
0.0 1.8
3 months ago almost 3 years ago
C C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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vorbis

Posts with mentions or reviews of vorbis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • DAC and Bitrate Questions
    1 project | /r/audiophile | 10 Mar 2021
    This a hard to answer question as it depends on the compression algorithm and even then its not a simple answer. Usually you see the stuff above 20 khz removed as well as the hard to hear detail in the high range. They are based on psychoacoustics so they try to only remove unheard detail. Another example is a quiet tone close to a loud tone in the frequency spectrum will be masked and harder to hear. The real answer is the code. Here is the reference code for ogg which Spotify uses. https://github.com/xiph/vorbis

libopenaptx

Posts with mentions or reviews of libopenaptx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-07.
  • Steam Deck bluetooth codecs supported?
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 8 Aug 2021
    AptX Low-Latency support is possible with a software update or software mod, source: https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx/issues/1
  • License compatibility of libopenaptx and fdk-aac with openSUSE
    2 projects | /r/openSUSE | 7 Jul 2021
    Background: I use Tumbleweed for audio recording/production among other general use cases. This lead me to manually switch to pipewire before it was made the default recently. During my research before making the switch I learned that the pipewire packaged in openSUSE does not support aptx and AAC bluetooth codecs because dependencies libopenaptx (https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx) and fdk-aac (https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac) are missing. I believe LDAC support works despite it sometimes being referred to as "nonfree" due to libldac being packaged with openSUSE, but I have not confirmed this. Support for aptx is important to me so I installed the version from packman which is compiled with support for these codecs. However, this got me wondering if it is possible to provide aptx and AAC in openSUSE without needing to install it through packman.
  • PipeWire 0.3.29 released Launchpad PPA (MX Linux supported)
    2 projects | /r/linux | 3 Jun 2021
    License change: https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx/commit/811bc18586d634042618d633727ac0281d4170b8
  • What Fedora 34 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-freeworld Replacement?
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 26 Mar 2021
    probably ... dunno for sure, since there is libopenaptx : https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vorbis and libopenaptx you can also consider the following projects:

opus - Modern audio compression for the internet.

pipewire-debian - Upstream Version of pipewire, wireplumber, roc-toolkit & blueman for debian/ubuntu

vgmstream - vgmstream - A library for playback of various streamed audio formats used in video games. [Moved to: https://github.com/vgmstream/vgmstream]

pulseaudio-modules-bt - [Deprecated, see https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/154] Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux

vgmstream - vgmstream - A library for playback of various streamed audio formats used in video games.

fdk-aac - A standalone library of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC code from Android.

speech-denoiser - A speech denoise lv2 plugin based on RNNoise library

minivorbis - Single-file port of libogg and libvorbis for decoding ogg sound files.

xls - Pure Golang xls library

OggDecoder - OGG decoder for iOS/MacOS based on Vorbis framework

libvorbis - Haskell binding for libvorbis, for decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files