MP3: "On 7 July 1994, the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder, called l3enc." [0] Opus 1.3: "libopus 1.3 was released on October 18, 201

MP3: "On 7 July 1994, the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder, called l3enc." [0] Opus 1.3: "libopus 1.3 was released on October 18, 2018" [1] I feel like this is like asking "Why didn't Intel realize how flawed 8086 processor was, the Mac M1 makes the x86 look like a joke." MP3 is so much older than Opus 1.3 hardly a fair comparison to expect 1991 tech to anticipate 2018's music styles, dynamic range, processing power, etc... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Fraunhofer_example_implementation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Fraunhofer_example_impleme... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#1.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#1.3