Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

I have thousands of mp3s so I'd say they still matter. As far as audio quality goes I doubt my ears, at least at my age, can tell the difference between them and a lossless format.

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

Yes. People forget that regardless of the technical differences between them ultimately it is your ears that have to listen to them and I doubt the average person can really tell the difference.

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

yt-dlp uses m4a but sometimes I like my library to be mo3 just for nostalgia

[darkenfolk@dormi.zone]

[dan1101@lemm.ee]

And Mazda 3. The platforms are the same but engines and interiors a lot different between the Fords and the Mazdas at least.

[btaf45@lemmy.world]

[r_deckard@lemmy.world]

[usually_lurker@lemmy.world]

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

[lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org]

Ubiquitousness is not an aspect of the codec, let alone a technical one. It's yet another failure of capitalism.

[aliceblossom@lemmy.world]

[quarterswede@lemmy.world]

Check out the many OTR Gold podcasts that have the serialized shows as episodes.

[aceshigh@lemmy.world]

… I’m out of the loop. Why don’t people care about mp3s?

[underwaterbob@lemm.ee]

[happytimeharry@lemm.ee]

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

Find somewhere that accepts/generates ewaste and you might be able to score an internal CD/DVD drives. We were doing some reorganizing at work and I saw a literal box full of 5.25" drives

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

The concept of file extensions really break down when it comes to audio and video files

Honestly anywhere other than windows they start getting a bit funky since most ecosystems don't actually rely on the filename to determine the file type

It also doesn't help that so many file types are just a bunch of text files shoved into a zip file wearing a mask. It's all abstractions all the way down baby!

[aceshigh@lemmy.world]

Mhmm I haven’t heard of the first two. I still listen to mp3s that I got from the 90s.

[cambridgeport90@techhub.social]

@dustyData Oh my gosh. I see this every single day at work. So many people have no idea where any of their documents are saved, until they can’t find them. I’ll be honest, I use a lot of streaming services for music as well, but I think I might actually go back to simply buying music. Who knows. Call me old-fashioned and only 35 years old, but I still see a point in local storage in traditional desktop type software. There’s not enough of it around here.

[cambridgeport90@techhub.social]

@daggermoon Ogg is actually my preference, but so much stuff still doesn’t support it these days.