Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
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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.
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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.
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yt-dlp uses m4a but sometimes I like my library to be mo3 just for nostalgia
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You've never heard about bicycle bells, have you?
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And Mazda 3. The platforms are the same but engines and interiors a lot different between the Fords and the Mazdas at least.
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Ubiquitousness is not an aspect of the codec, let alone a technical one. It's yet another failure of capitalism.
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Check out the many OTR Gold podcasts that have the serialized shows as episodes.
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Its mostly been superseded by AAC, Opus and FLAC.
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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!
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Mhmm I havenāt heard of the first two. I still listen to mp3s that I got from the 90s.
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@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 canāt find them. Iāll 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. Thereās not enough of it around here.
