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Bruce

Interesting, but when does our corner of the industry make a change?

https://qz.com/983934/say-goodbye-to-the-iconic-mp3/

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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 9:00 am Post subject:

I don't see change happening any time soon. So many clients rely on an mp3 based audio player and they won't see the value in spending money on something that isn't broken.
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Bruce · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 9:06 am Post subject:

My understanding is that most audio players that play mp3's also play AAC (also known at m4a) audio files, so in theory we could start shipping audio that way today, yes, no?

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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 9:08 am Post subject:

I completely agree with that but the majority of my clients wouldn't know and mp3 from an AAC.
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Bruce · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 9:11 am Post subject:

They may not know it, but will they bother to look at the extension, m4a, and if they do will they care?

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Lee Gordon · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 9:59 am Post subject:

These "mp3 is dead" stories are so typical of the perspective of the engineers and other nerds who develop the products they fancy as replacements for things currently in use. Just like the botanists and geneticists who may geek out over the benefits of GMOs (and there may very well be many), it is still up to the end users to decide they want to make the switch. With mp3s, I don't see any rush by the current user base to move to something different.
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ccpetersen · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 10:14 am Post subject:

Yep, this is more bumpf from Fraunhofer...
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SteveToner · Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 12:46 pm Post subject:

Uhhh... The patents expired. That's a good thing for the rest of the world. Means anybody can use the MP3 format without paying a license fee to Fraunhofer (never mind that a whole lot of LAME users never paid it anyway...) How in anybody's imagination does this spell the death of the format???
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