# Opus? why?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/opus-why/795018>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/opus-why/795018 "2022-05-31T01:10:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![papatulle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/papatulle/32/278158_2.png) [@papatulle](https://forums.plex.tv/u/papatulle)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/opus-why/795018/1 "2022-05-31T01:10:16Z")

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My question is why would anyone ever want OPUS? First, we live in a world of extremely fast network connections, and cheap huge drives! It is a day late to the compression party. I stream FLAC over my 5g mobile connection! IMHO OPUS is total garbage. I could instantly tell when my Plex trans-coded music into it. The audio loses all its dynamics. Songs sound flat and lifeless. This is why I hate PlexAmp. You have to turn off so many settings on day one, just to get rid of it’s foothold. I have edited my server profiles to disable OPUS trans-coding as best as I can.  
Plex on my 4K LG TV and AppleTV support FLAC/AAC direct so OPUS is a depreciated format to me.  
Most “real” modern OSes can support FLAC, AAC, and AAC multi-channel. OPUS would’ve been nice on a bandwidth and storage challenged 2017 system, but not in 2022.

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**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/opus-why/795018/2 "2022-05-31T01:48:22Z")

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> [@papatulle](#):
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> OPUS is total garbage

Science does not support that statement.

If you did a [proper ABX test](https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=114656.0) you’d find that your ears don’t either.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/opus-why/795018/3 "2022-05-31T09:47:13Z")

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What’s your point?  
Do you want Plex to force all its users to stream full-quality flac files, even though many of those users still have

- data volume-limited tariffs
- sometimes patchy connections which simply don’t handle higher bitrates reliable enough

?

Besides, if you want to stream full quality flac files, simply tell the plex app to do so in its preferences.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/opus-why/795018/4 "2022-08-29T09:47:39Z")

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