• twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Much like GIFs, MP3s will never go away.

    Sure there are better alternatives, but widespread adoption over decades now is hard to gloss over.

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      1 year ago

      As someone who grew up with mp3 and is currently replacing it with opus, o7

      (IK theres flac, but bruh…storage is expensive and my equipment isn’t like state of the art)

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I did the same. Faced a problem where mp3 and opus replaygain tags follow different spec (replaygain calculators for some reason use R128_ tags for opus files for some reason) and some players don’t support it yet. Apart from that there haven’t been issues.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Not being encumbered by patents is a huge advantage for MP3s going forward, and the reality is that MP3 is good enough for vast majority of situations. The improvements newer formats like AAC bring are not worth the trouble of being chained to a proprietary format.

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              I was a flac snob when I was younger, and I can say with certainty: 320kbps mp3s or even VBR are indistinguishable from opus or even lossless except when listening very very very closely on high end hardware. I’m very into audio still and production etc. That’s not to say opus isn’t better or higher quality, but the difference it makes is decidedly negligible to the vast majority of listeners. I guarantee that almost everyone would fail to do better than a coin flip a/b testing these technologies on the same audio recording.

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                192kbps opus will allow you to achieve roughly the same quality as 320kbps mp3. If you stream your music from any device or have a larger collection this difference can matter a lot.