Opus is something really, really cool! My last company (Zip Phone, YC S14) was a direct result of the fantastic work that the Opus team has done in the last fe

Opus is something really, really cool! My last company (Zip Phone, YC S14) was a direct result of the fantastic work that the Opus team has done in the last few years. I remember researching audio codecs around the end of 2013 and stumbling across Opus, and being amazed at what it could do at extremely low bitrates, and everything was available completely for free! Spent my fair share of time on the Opus IRC channel on freenode (shout out to derf, gmaxwell, jmspeex, mark4o) bugging them with basic queries, and getting excellent support. Opus rocks.