Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
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Godamn this made my job feel secure
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I am very slightly annoyed that people haven't moved onto Opus which gives you better compression and quality than MP3. MP3s are still useful for any older devices that have hardware decoding like radio sets, handheld players, etc. Otherwise, every modern device should support Opus out of box.
Hilariously, x264 has the same problem where there are direct upgrades with H.265 and AV1, but the usage is still low due to lack of hardware accelerated encoding (especially AV1), but like everyone uses FLAC for the audio which is lossless lol.
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I think SW Republic Commando sounds were stored in Vorbis. Back then.
I use Opus when I rip something. It's been a long time since the last case. I've left FreeBSD for Linux and returned back to Linux again since then.
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Mp3 has been dead to me for nearly a decade. Flac is superior in every way.
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I just use ogg vorbis and vp9 in webm container, also webp for images. No proprietary nonsense in this house.
AV1 sucks on my hardware, but yes eventually. -
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I would say its more like 60hz refresh vs 90. The difference isn't super huge but when you notice it, you can't un-notice it, so it's almost better to stay ignorant to it.
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Having to rely on an internet connection for your main connection would be inconvenient as hell.
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Yep with the music compressed to hell, still sad about it after all this years
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Mp3's just don't sound good to me. It's a very old format that was pretty much the first of it's kind. Audio compression (while I don't like it) has improved greatly over the years. I saw another user bring up OGG OPUS and it's really impressive what it can do. I was able to compress a song to fit on a floppy disk while still being listenable. It kind of sucks that formats like mp3 and jpg are the standard when open formats that are major improvements over older formats fail to recieve significant adoption. AAC 320 is the 60/90 difference to me. I was shocked how close a 320 kbps m4a file is to CD quality flac.
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How? It's never failed me once. It's literally just like Spotify except my own collection.
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If you are using the files played back at different tempos or keyshifted, the difference between lossy and lossless is a lot more apparent. For standard playback at normal pitch, mp3 is just fine.
