[Informatics] RIP MP3

[Garth, Lucas A]

Hi Mark
A sad day for everyone.

“Because: who needs to compress audio in these days of multi-gigabyte media player devices, 10TB hard disks, and broadband transmission speeds?”

Anyone wanting to listen “on the go” on a mobile device that limits them to small highly priced SD cards (not quite cheap 10TB ones around unless I’m mistaken) and does not want to chew up data download limits.

After OS bloat most mobile phones have hardly enough space for 100 good songs and a few series you want to watch while waiting for the bus.

Lucas

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Sent: Thursday, 20 July 2017 3:23 PM
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Subject: [Informatics] RIP MP3

Hi all

In case you had not noticed this milestone, MP3 is now officially dead.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-15/mp3-founders-terminate-licensing-program/8526292

Long live (lossy) AAC.
But I prefer lossless FLAC.

Because: who needs to compress audio in these days of multi-gigabyte media player devices, 10TB hard disks, and broadband transmission speeds?
And if your device can't decode FLAC, you really need a new player.

So, off you go. Avert the digital dark age.
Convert your MP3 files to another format before software makers discard MP3 and the format becomes as unreadable as a 5.25" floppy disk.

Yes, converting your lossy MP3 files to AAC will cost you a generational loss of quality.
That's why lossless formats such as FLAC are preferable.

Have fun

Mark

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