{"id":18006,"date":"2017-05-16T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18006"},"modified":"2017-05-16T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:46:13","slug":"mp3-is-dead-missed-the-real-much-better-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/16\/mp3-is-dead-missed-the-real-much-better-story\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;MP3 Is Dead&rdquo; Missed the Real, Much Better Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2017\/05\/15\/mp3-isnt-dead\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14347648\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2017\/05\/15\/mp3-isnt-dead\">\n<p>So while there&rsquo;s a debate to be had &mdash; in a moment &mdash; about whether MP3 should still be used today, Fraunhofer&rsquo;s announcement has nothing to do with that, and is simply the ending of its patent-licensing program (because the patents have all expired) and a suggestion that we move to a newer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iis.fraunhofer.de\/en\/ff\/amm\/prod\/audiocodec\/audiocodecs\/aaclc.html\">still-patented<\/a> format.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>AAC and other newer audio codecs can produce better quality than MP3, but the difference is <a href=\"http:\/\/opus-codec.org\/comparison\/\">only significant at low bitrates<\/a>. At about 128 kbps or greater, the differences between MP3 and other codecs are very unlikely to be noticed, so it isn&rsquo;t meaningfully better for personal music collections. For new music, get AAC if you want, but it&rsquo;s not worth spending any time replacing MP3s you already have.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment (Hacker News): So while there&rsquo;s a debate to be had &mdash; in a moment &mdash; about whether MP3 should still be used today, Fraunhofer&rsquo;s announcement has nothing to do with that, and is simply the ending of its patent-licensing program (because the patents have all expired) and a suggestion that we move to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[804,95,31,30,1522,40],"class_list":["post-18006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aac","tag-audio","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-mp3","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18007,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions\/18007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}