Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
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Have you ever used Bandcamp before?
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I use a combination of mp3s and opus primarily but I can't remember if opus is the open format ogg or not.
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For FLAC you have torrents, no legal way to have that. For tags I use https://beets.io/ but it's not moving tags, it's detection and looking up on a database on the internet.
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It's a sample of 1, but we hired a young guy with a CS Master's degree. I told him in polite ways that he should not use ChatGPT and his code sucked. When he was told to fix something, he rewrote it completely with a new prompt instead of understanding bugs. He didn't last more than 2 months.
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Doesn't the iPod use AAC?
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For Flac you have digital market places and CDs you can obtain from store fronts and private sellers like flea markets or shops like ebay or discogs.
Or torrents and DDL.
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At least the shuffle is partly coherent.
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Are you a baddie?
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And what's the extension of opus? .opus?
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Thanks, it certainly looks useful.
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I actually used discogs a lot in the past. They can be quite expensive at times. Though this will be a mix of everything since not everything can be obtainable legally, at least for my archive.
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Apart from my home hifi (which is built around flac) everything i liaten to ia mp3. Podcasts - mp3. Car audio system? Max 192kbps mp3. My phone? Full of mp3.
And I'm sure I'm not alone.
To say mp3 is not relevant anymore is just misguided. -
Found the fellow Volvo user?
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I thought it didnât sound any different to me too. That is until me and a friend were riding around listening to Icky Thump by The White Stripes for a few weeks when it first came out.
Higher bitrate, ripped directly from the CD, pretty decent car radio.
We had been listening to my copy, he didnât own yet.
We stopped at a record store one day when we were out and he picked up his copy. He wanted to play the CD for whatever reason, and when he stuck the disc in, âberderwiddledod dahta dah BOOM BOOM BOOMâ.
I couldnât believe it. It was like the record just sucked the power out of us both and used it to burst through the speakers.
The mp3, by comparison, sounded shrunk down from the source and splashed with water.
It didnât change my listening habits because of convenience, but damn. It was an eye opener.
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Always remember that in some places executive just means the dumbest person in the room and most developers won't lift a finger if it means they get to see the owners embarrassing themselves in public.
