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> MP3 is not monolithic, and has changed drastically since it was released. To some extent certainly, though I think that e.g. the handling of short sharp tran
by iggldiggl 4y ago
> MP3 is not monolithic, and has changed drastically since it was released.
To some extent certainly, though I think that e.g. the handling of short sharp transient remains somewhat of a fundamental problem of MP3 no matter how much bitrate and encoding brain power you throw at it, and was only really improved upon in the subsequent generation of codecs, i.e. like AAC, Vorbis or Opus.
- Night_Thastus 4y agoTrue, though I think variable bit rate MP3 is fine enough for most. But the main reason is that it's so ubiquitous. If you're buying music, it's almost always MP3 unless you go to a source like Qobuz which serves FLAC. Same with devices - basically everything supports MP3. Vorbis and Opus support is far patchier.
- iggldiggl 4y ago> unless you go to a source like Qobuz which serves FLAC. Apple is another odd one out there by only selling music as AAC, and Bandcamp gives you a comprehensive choice of all sorts of formats. > Same with devices - basically everything supports MP3. Vorbis and Opus support is far patchier. True that, though AAC support might also be somewhat reasonably common-ish these days. (Though I've found that apart from also having a relatively low folder count limit in general, my car radio also has some difficulties with reading the metadata in some files, and as far as I can tell I think the affected files are all MPEG-4 files. It's only some MPEG-4 files that are affected, though, but I haven't yet bothered to find out what exactly else they might have in common.)
- Night_Thastus 4y agoI wish everyone was on Bandcamp. It's such a great service. It's so flexible. And unlike Qobuz, it's website is actually decent.