> Why do people insist on still using MP3, when better stuff is available? It's patent-free and well supported everywhere by everything. For example, if you w

> Why do people insist on still using MP3, when better stuff is available? It's patent-free and well supported everywhere by everything. For example, if you want to use audio on a webpage, and you want it to work *everywhere*, and you don't want to have to encode multiple formats/containers then MP3 is the only option. You can't use Opus because of course Safari (it does support it, but only in a Safari-specific container), and AAC is not support on Firefox in certain situations (because it doesn't actually include an AAC codec and relies on the OS to decode it).