the death of mp3?
does anyone think that mp3 will die off as a format? i think it will. the 3 big players all have their own formar, apple's aac, sony's atrac, microsoft's wma. these format allow for better copy protection, can be compressed further or less and so are more flexible.
and with most mp3 sites being closed is this the beginning of the end?
An mp3 has much better quality than a wma. Which sounds better: a compressed song, or a high quality song?
wma can be made lossless. that is one of the great things about it. mp3 is compressed.
Why on earth would we want formats with copy protection?
kthxbai.
MP3 has quite a bit of compression ranges you can choose from. I've seen 300+ and down to about 40 kbps.
I've never heard of sony's format that you named. Obviously it isn't in much usage yet, and I fail to see why you counted it with the other two.
mp3 is getting old, but still works.
txt is even older, but still works fine.
Not for a while because .mp3s are the best type of file for music. iTunes format is good, but it only works for iTunes and you can't share them. And I won't even go into .wma files, that's how sucky they are.
i don't see what is wrong with a flexible file format.
and the fact that aac cannot be shared is the reason while it will be choosen over mp3. it protects the money makers.
MP3 is great! It runs on all normal media players and thats the way it should go, just like MPEG. Or do you people want to have 20 players installed, just incase you need to watch a .mov or a .real or a .something file. No, MP3 should stay, unless a better version of it will be developed.
However, when people don't buy those 'money makers''s files because of crappy formats, they'll soon stop using them.Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
and I've already said that mp3 is flexible. In the same way that jpeg is flexible, actually, seeing how they're very similar xD
cl_out hates wma
I'm sure it'll die eventually, as most media formats do. But I don't think it'll be for several years yet. None of the other formats are so great that they'll stamp out everything else available.
You guys buy mp3's now?
If mp3s are killed it won't be by any of the things listed above. The only
thing that will kill them are lossless formats, of course the reason mp3s are
so popular is because they take lossless and convert it to a format which
takes out a TON of information, but stuff that you don't hear...or that's
how it's supposed to work...and thus you have a much smaller file. But
once space is no longer an issue (with the birth of holographic CDs and
other mass storage devices) mp3s may give way to lossless formats.
In fact they are in some places, such as the bittorrent brance of etree.org
which offers tons of free live shows by share friendly bands all in lossless
format. The difference between lossless and lossy isn't so much the sound
but the feeling. The best description I've heard was by my sister (when I
made her listen to a lossless Ozric Tentacles show that I got). She said
"MP3s are like..." and pointed with 1 finger on each hand at each of her
ears, then moved her hands an inch away, then back, then away, then
back. "But this is like..." and she wiggled all her fingers next to her ears.
Sort of hard to explain exactly what it looked like with text though haha.
But anyway, yeah, mp3s will be killed by lossless formats, but aacs,
wmas, etc don't stand a chance because they're more oriented toward
a specific company or product. Once mp3 players (note the name, haha)
support FLAC and SHN files, you'll start to see them rise to power I think.
.opt
Is it just me, or am I only imagining that OGG has a lossless format?
Ahhhh I think you're right. Good call, then it's further along than I
thought.
.opt
Let MP3's die. I like PSF's, SPC's, NSF's, and other game music formats more anyway.
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