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It's so ancient that it makes you assume that it has to be truly exceptional to survive that long in such an environment.
by Bakary 9y ago
It's so ancient that it makes you assume that it has to be truly exceptional to survive that long in such an environment.
- acdha 9y agoExceptional might be the wrong term but I think there's a plateau effect: MP3 was the first mainstream codec to reach the level where most people didn't perceive any drawbacks and there's a huge inertial benefit. I don't regret ripping my entire collection as AAC / lossless but I also acknowledge that the space savings are basically a waste of time for anyone not using good speakers / headphones in a very quiet environment, and outside of a handful of pieces susceptible to pre-echo lossless was a hedge against double-encoding in the somewhat unlikely event that the future codec landscape changes dramatically.