Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
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Check out the many OTR Gold podcasts that have the serialized shows as episodes.
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Anyone telling you they can hear the difference between a 320kbps MP3 and lossless audio is full of shit, anyway. It's still a great format for keeping file sizes small, though I prefer ogg these days.
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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
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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 haven’t 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 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.
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@daggermoon Ogg is actually my preference, but so much stuff still doesn’t support it these days.
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Most music files may be MP3s, but music files are rare these days. I wouldn't be surprised if most people under 30 have never interacted with a music file at all, they just use streaming services.
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Still care about MP3- it's the bog standard, the thing EVERYthing supports. Like the shitty SBC codec on Bluetooth. I've still got tons of MP3s and they aren't going away anytime soon.
Everything I get new though is high-res FLAC.
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Ogg at lower bitrates sounded better than mp3 at the same rate. Consumers dont care, but for a lot of game developers the zero patent risk and higher quality shipping with smaller files made Ogg a great choice at the time.
For me? FLACs are the only way.... which reminds me, I wonder I can still convert all the SHN (shorten) lossless files I still have. I should get on that before a converter doesn't exist.
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m4a
That's mp4, which is 33% better than mp3 /j
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I 100% do. I think mp3 is a good compromise of sound and space. It's also the format I'm used to. Just like how people swear by physical record. If I'm at a get together and hear mp3 quality, I'm at home.
That being said, I have my absolute favorites in flac for my iPod 5th gen video I rebuilt. The 5th gen's dac, Wolfson, is a solid little dac for the day and age. Got Rockbox loaded up and I'm ace, but I've hard saved all the Apple firmware for every model in case the time came to sell them. Old iPods could be an investment someday and I own every gen in multiples.
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Honestly, I'm a little surprised that a smartphone user wouldn't have a familiarity of a concept of files, setting aside the whole familiarity-with-a-PC thing. Like, I've always had a file manager on my Android smartphone. I mean, ok...most software packages don't require having one browse the file structure on the thing. And many are isolated, don't have permission to touch shared files. Probably a good thing to sandbox apps, helps reduce the impact of malware.
But...I mean, even sandboxed apps can provide file access to the application-private directory on Android. I guess they just mostly don't, if the idea is that they should only be looking at files in application-private storage on-device, or if they're just the front end to a cloud service.
Hmm. I mean, I have GNU/Linux software running in Termux, do stuff like
scpfrom there. A file manager. Open local video files inmpvor in PDF viewers and such. I've a Markdown editor that permits browsing the filesystem. Ditto for an org-mode editor. I've got a directory hierarchy that I've created, though simpler and I don't touch it as much as on the PC.But, I suppose that maybe most apps just don't expose it in their UI. I could see a typical Android user just never using any of the above software (though...not having a local PDF viewer or video player seems odd, but I guess someone could just rely wholly on streaming services for video and always open PDFs off the network).
I remember being absolutely shocked when trying to view a locally-stored HTML file once that Android-based web browsers apparently didn't permit opening local HTML files, that one had to set up a local webserver (though that may have something to do with the fact that I believe that by default, with Web browser security models, a webpage loaded via the
file://URI scheme has general access to your local filesystem but one talking to a webserver on localhost does not...maybe that was the rationale). -
I meant - before Unix.
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I'm a big fan ogg opus, but I wouldn't convert between lossy formats
