Xhe-aac didn't steal anything. The biggest video platform YouTube uses opus not he-aac. Second. We no longer live in 56k modem era to care that much about audio compression. 64kbps opus already sounds better than old MP3 128kbps joint-stereo. I really do not care If xhe-aac will achieve the same quality at even lower bitrate (48kbps). The same can be seen with image compression. Ancient jpg is still good enough and file size is not a problem when you have at least 1Mbps connection
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