# Plex Music Sync, keep original format (opus) **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** downloads\ **Created:** [January 14, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-music-sync-keep-original-format-opus/526944 "2020-01-14T12:22:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-music-sync-keep-original-format-opus/526944/2 "2021-03-05T22:33:46Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Sync Opus to Android without transcoding](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sync-opus-to-android-without-transcoding/183360): > > I wanted to sync some songs to my phone, and chose “original” audio quality. The songs are using Opus codec and ogg container (.opus), which is supported by both Android and Windows at this time. Playing it without sync (with some changes to Android.xml) works fine too. Still Plex chooses to transcode it. To what format I don’t know. MP3 maybe? Plese Plex, let me sync Opus audio to my Android devices without transcoding it! Opus is superior to any lossy codec when it comes to quality at a give… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-music-sync-keep-original-format-opus/526944)._