“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story

Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by pacificmint on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @04:26AM (#14348154)

The real shame, IMO, is not that some CEO or other non technical person is confused, but that reputable news outlets reported it that way. (For some value of reputable).

If you look at the three links that Marco posted in the first sentence, they lead to articles by Gizmodo, Engadget and NPR, all of which completely got the story wrong. That's shocking, if you ask me.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by ungzd on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:15AM (#14348335)

Gizmodo and Engadget are not "reputable news outlets", but junk blogs for users of browser toolbars with announcements for each chinese tablet. I never seen any half-decent article on such sites. It's even stupidier than clickbait, there are no sensationalism and attention manipulation, these sites are just content fillers, their authors just compose words randomly.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by soneil on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:08AM (#14348911)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articles/39934257

It's not just Engadget and ilk. The difference between being end-of-life as a product for Fraunhofer, and obsolete as a format, is a distinction not many outlets have made.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by noway421 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:37AM (#14348410)

Is there even a reputable techinical news outlet? TechCrunch is too very clickbaity and editorilized, although gets linked here all the time

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:50AM (#14348444)

Ars Technica, perhaps?

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by lenocinor on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @12:02PM (#14350631)

Despite other comments here, I'm as happy as ever with Ars, and I've been reading it for many years. They're the only tech news site I read anymore (besides here of course).

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by LaikaF on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:07AM (#14359147)

I've generally seen people get on the wagon of bashing Ars then not having anything better as a replacement suggestion. Like yeah I know the actual blog source is better but I don't know every tech blog on the internet.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by rplst8 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:46AM (#14349105)

No. Absolutely not. After they were acquired by Conde Nast, it has been downhill at an amazing pace.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by cdrark on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @01:49PM (#14351655)

I have always found Ars to have relevant and well written content. Conde Nast has a lot of good writers at their various properties.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by lightedman on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @09:17AM (#14349286)

They were downhill well before Conde Nast. Almost every article they ever did on LEDs was horribly out of date, using information that was true maybe a decade ago.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:06AM (#14350158)

Eh, it's been a long time since I read it. Maybe it was for the better.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by jorvi on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @06:04AM (#14348486)

I used to frequent Anandtech, Digital Foundry and ExtremeTech as they all had pretty good articles that sometimes went quite deep into the matter at hand. Anandtech its quality has gone down a lot, ExtremeTech is full of ads, ZergNet links and a constantly running JS script (probably a tracker?), and Digital Foundry its deep dives have become a lot less frequent. Only Ars Technica remains :/

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by verall on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:32AM (#14349851)

Anandtech is still very good imo. I haven't really found any website that compares.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by em500 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @07:59AM (#14348876)

http://techmeme.com

It's an aggregator, and you need to resist the urge to click on the links. But the headlines and blurb are often informative enough that you usually don't need to click.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by tokenizerrr on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:38AM (#14349063)

> you need to resist the urge to click on the links

Why?

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by em500 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:58AM (#14349166)

Techmeme heading/summary:

"Fraunhofer, the major contributor to MP3, shut down its licensing program in April as MP3 patents expired — Red Hat has announced that Fedora will include official MP3 decoding and encoding. The reason is that MP3 is now patent free - as far as anyone can tell."

First linked (Engadget) article: "MP3 is dead, long live AAC. Its creators have abandoned licenses to the format, signing its death sentence."

Not clicking would have both saved you time and left you better informed.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by sametmax on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @06:35AM (#14348581)

Well they are not famous for their news articles but their technical reviews. If you are looking for a laptop or a phone, then gizmodo and engadgets are really good sources. My guess is that they had to expend (investors probably asked for it), so they did news (badly). But their core skill is still very good.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by sohkamyung on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @09:38PM (#14354918)

I stopped reading Engadget the moment I saw this tag used for the Nikon D810A DSLR for astrophotography in 2015 [1]: "Astrology". <facepalm/>

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2015/02/09/nikon-d810a-astrophotogr...

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by sametmax on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:01AM (#14357269)

Clearly a typo, probably due to autocompletion in the tag selector widget since : https://www.engadget.com/tag/Astrology/

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by dexterdog on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:25AM (#14350292)

Convincing a reasonable CEO that news sources can be garbage should not be difficult.

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