Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
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I think SW Republic Commando sounds were stored in Vorbis. Back then.
Unreal Tournament also used Vorbis starting from either 2003 or 2004.
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I can understand some arguments that there’s always room to advance UI paradigms, but I have to say that I don’t think that cloud-based smartphone UIs are the endgame.
I think the first filesystems had flat layout (no directories), but also had different file types for a library, an executable, a plaintext file. Then there were filesystems where directories could only list files, not other directories.
Slowly and gradually over time they evolved to the abstractions of directories listing files and other directories. I think in early Unix even a directory was a usual file, just differently interpreted.
Now, instead of teaching clueless people they've made a whole culture of computing for clueless people only, unfit for proper usage.
One might see how representation of something like a lent of objects is the flat layout again. At some point it doesn't matter that there's a normal filesystem under it, or something.
One might also see how using tags to somewhat organize objects into another lent is similar to a two-level layout, where a directory can only list files.
If one is going to consume content, okay, fine.
How would one know if they want to use computers seriously if they haven't been taught, don't know where to start teaching themselves, probably have, mild or not, executive dysfunction (a lot of conditions) and, if put in the right situation, would be very capable and interested, but in the wrong situation just can't learn a single thing?
That was me, I could only reduce distractions and non-transparency after moving to Linux (and then OpenBSD, and then FreeBSD) with obscure WMs and setups. I'm born in 1996, so I had it easier.
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I just use ogg vorbis and vp9 in webm container, also webp for images. No proprietary nonsense in this house.
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Except file size.
I convert everything from flac to mp3 before I put it on my phone. I'm lucky in that I can't tell the difference in quality at all. -
Current students generally have horrendous computer literacy. There was only about a 20ish year window where using a computer meant you were forced to become vaguely proficient in how it worked. Toward the end of the 90s into the 2000s plug and play began to work more reliably, then 10 years after that smartphone popularity took off and it's been apps ever since.
Students in high school this year were born from ~2007-2011. Most of them probably had a smartphone before a computer, if they even had the latter at all.
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Well, most of my music collection lies as mp3. I care about metadata and all of them have tags. I would love to convert my collection to opus but first I need FLACs and an easy way to move over metadata, since vorbis is different than ID3tag. Do you know a streamlined way for this?
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It's just one of those things where once you hear the difference you can't go back. It's sort of the difference between a 360p vs 1440p youtube video. The compression artifacts make the music sound so artifical to me. I don't really know how to describe it. But yes, there is a considerable increase in file size. For me it's a non issue because I have my music collection on an 8tb hdd. Though I wish phones still had micro sd slots so I could take them with me. My music collection is at 1.2 tb I think. I'm not trying to be an elitist asshole here. I'm just sharing my experience.
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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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I still prefer mp3 because it's small and doesn't sound any different to me than uncompressed formats, so why waste the disk space?
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Yep with the music compressed to hell, still sad about it after all this years
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This is pure elitism refusing to see another point of view though. FLAC is an excellent format, but it is a format that doesn't meet everyone's needs.
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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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Even university students studying computer science don't have this basic knowledge anymore.
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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.
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But think about the 5 MB they saved!
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I'm curious if you've tried listening to lossy compressed audio through a vacuum tube output stage? I use a cheap tube compressor with the attack and release turned to minimal and just a little bit of extra makeup gain so that the tube colors the audio a small amount. Think of it like sanding the layer lines of a 3d print, but for audio. It does introduce a small amount of hiss and colors the midrange a bit more prominently, but you can eq that out.
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Damn, I never even thought of the implications for compsci. That's gotta be an interesting challenge for profs these days.
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I personally enjoy PNG image format for my compressed web images, but I'll be damned if JPG isn't "good enough" while also being magnitudes smaller, especially when I have to start embedding things as base64 encoded text in outlook and teams at work, or when I don't want my screenshots folder at home taking 2TB of disk space (Spectacle can change image format).
