[Informatics] RIP MP3

Thu Jul 20 22:14:41 AEST 2017

It's no surprise that good old WAV, RTF, TS and BMP still linger in the
available file formats you can save to.
Universally-readable, lossless, uncompressed. Can't go too far wrong.

I wish IEEE would mandate perpetual lossless formats for audio, video,
text, and images that will never be superseded or lost.

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 at 10:04 PM, Robert Hind <robert at yinnar.com> wrote:

> Have done similar on a smaller scale. I lost part of two tapes to a
> cassette-to-mp3 setup and then resurrected a cassette dictation unit which
> has worked fine for me. I used good old Audacity and did store as higher
> quality mp3 which is fine given the audio quality of the original tapes.
>
> Cassettes will vanish as have floppy disks but I am sure the mp3 format is
> safe for some time. The main concern is the physical media used for
> storage. All moving media, ie CDs, DVDs and HDDs will be replaced by solid
> state storage. I'll be interested to see what becomes the preferred
> archival storage medium for digital data.
>
> Robert Hind
> Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
> Retired
>
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> *From:* informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark
> *Sent:* Thursday, 20 July 2017 9:31 PM
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> *To:* Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Informatics] RIP MP3
>
> Hi Litsa and List,
>
> I'm in the process of digitising about 400 audio cassettes containing
> recordings of British radio comedy from the 1970s and 1980s.
> (I belong to a secret society of old time radio enthusiasts. Shh. I've
> already said too much.)
>
> Just finding a decent cassette deck was tough enough. They are rare, and
> getting rarer.
> (Tip: The cassette-to-MP3 units you see on eBay and Aldi are *not* very
> good.)
>
> In a couple of decades, the ability to read audio cassettes may be arcane
> magic, and all of their information may be lost.
> Not long after, MP3 may be a quaint and unsupported format.
> Does anyone else remember AVI/DIVX ?
> I distinctly remember seeing the first discussion of Matroska (mkv) and
> chuckling at the idea of *anything* competing with AVI.
> Giants are quickly slain in the battlefield of media formats.
>
> And yes, I *am* saving the digital audio files to FLAC.
> Entropy cannot decrease. Information must be preserved.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 at 9:04 PM, Litsa Tzelepis <htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> So sad ....
>> I'm sticking to my tape deck.
>> :-)
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 at 3:43 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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