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Originally Posted by soresu
Sadly even in developed countries there are plenty of rural areas with terrible data connections using ancient ADSL tech on lines miles from the nearest telephone exchange.
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Nowdays You get at least ~ 1-1.5 Mbit in worst case or you get nothing. And that's with an old ADSL2+. 10% of that bitrate budget will go for audio. That's 128 kbps.
xHE-AAC is very low bitrate format and it doesn't present any advantage at 96 kbps and higher comparing to an old LC-AAC. (go check official MPEG tests).
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Originally Posted by soresu
In less developed countries the problem is even worse still, so even a few dozen kilobits still count.
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No.
https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/country/india/
Somebody saying that xHE-AAC is gaining market fast and letting another audio formats in dust, it isn't just not true. It's a bald-face lie.
Companies don't want to pay for low bitrate xHE-AAC license simply because LC-AAC patents have expired and they don't need to stream 32-48 kbps where xHE-AAC would make sense.
Spotify (web app), Tidal , Apple Music, Netflix, they all don't need to pay anymore for LC-AAC licensing.
xHE-AAC was developed 7 years ago. Since then it has faced stiff competition from Opus and patent expiration of MP3, LC-AAC, Dolby Digital AC3 formats. Today it belongs same place as another failed audio format, MPEG Surround, which hasn't seen any meaningful adoption.