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On another b5media site (and my previous home), High Def Delight, Christopher Swenson wrote an article essentially saying that it is time to ditch MP3. MP3 is quite the ancient file format (approved in 1991) yet it is the prominent file format in the digital music market as almost all digital music players are referred to as MP3 players because, well, they all play MP3 players. While I agree with the post that we should start to transfer to other codecs like AAC, I believe MP3 is here to stay for quite some time.

MP3 files are dominant, as I mentioned, and if you asked people what AAC files and Ogg Vorbis files are, your average Joe will most likely not know what the difference then. AAC files are definitely more “efficient” with the sound quality to file size ratio, but if you convert your MP3 files to AAC, you lose more data because all you are doing is just re-encoding that file again and losing the data.

I won’t say too much else as his article is definitely worth a read, but I don’t really think MP3 is going anywhere anytime soon. MP3 is a format that has stood the test of time and has a firm footprint in the ground.

Read [High Def Delight]

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