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> I'm really hopeful that one day it will be as successful as Opus.

I assume you mean more successful.

I have never seen or even heard of an Opus file in the wild.



Have you ever used:

- Skype

- Google Hangouts

- Youtube on Chrome

- Mumble

- Teamspeak

- the Playstation 4

- most speech recognition APIs

If so, then you've used Opus.


I think it is quite popular for VoIP and it is also part of WebRTC and hence supported by Chrome and Firefox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#Software


As others have mentioned, it's heavily in use in streaming. I don't know that it offers enough of an advantage over vorbis as a file-format to overcome the inertia of devices that support vorbis; we'll see in a few years.


Perhaps here success is a measurement of producing a patent free solution that's technically competitive (performance, compression, other metrics), rather than popular and widely adopted.




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