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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by r00fus on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @02:03PM (#14351798)
It's more about branding. In the early days, an mp3 could easily be some 64k cbr shite.

If you were sharing, FLAC was guaranteed high-quality and free. AAC/WMA usually meant copy-protected though likely a higher quality.

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Re:“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story by iamatworknow on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @03:15PM (#14352400)
>In the early days, an mp3 could easily be some 64k cbr shite.

When I was a teenager my first MP3 player (RCA Lyra) came with one 32 MB CompactFlash card. I cut the bitrate down far enough to fit 4 or 5 full albums on that at once. It sounded like absolute garbage but I was the only kid who could fit that much music in my pocket.

I tell this story because I'm still impressed by what MP3s can do after so much time.

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