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Why do people still use mp3?

Mp3 sucks. Sure it is small, but so is ogg or aac, and with todays tech, we have more than enough space for flac or wav, so why keep on using mp3?

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  • 12 months ago
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    In a lot of cases, pure ignorance.

    In others, convenience.

    For portable use, you can get more media in a given space and 320Kbit MP3 has fairly minimal loss of quality, as long as it is created with a high quality encoder such as LAME; some encoders are abysmal.

    Many people use bluetooth audio devices anyway - and that uses lossy compression, so the difference between 320K MP3 and FLAC etc. is pretty much lost regardless.

    Re. the other file types you mention:

    AAC is also lossy compression.

    OGG is only a container type like MKV and the content may be compressed with lossy codecs - or may be such as FLAC, "ogg" gives no clues as to which.

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    It is astonishing to see that while people would play a 40 Gigabytes FullHD or UHD 4K movie (about 2 hours length ). 

    But when listen to song and music, they don't mind it is only 40 Megabytes compressed audio (about 10 to 12 songs per album, 45 minutes length ).

    (for 2 hours audio song/music, that is about 107 Megabytes)

    How big is 40 Gigabytes? it is 40,000 Megabytes. 

    107 Megabytes is only about 0.27% of 40 Gigabytes.

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    Sounds fine to me...

  • 11 months ago

    Habits are hard to break.

    Most people aren't as concerned about sound quality

    as they are about having a huge library of tracks at their immediate command.

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  • Lam N
    Lv 4
    11 months ago

    freedom and convenient

    most people already have a huge collection of mp3, they dont want to buy new music just for the sake of having new file format. 

  • Mary
    Lv 4
    12 months ago

    they may not want to upgrade or might not be able to afford it

  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    It is more of a brand name than a file format. Many people who use MP3 players use the wav or WMA lossless format for their songs.

  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    The other day I saw a guy walking still using a Walkman. The one that uses Tapes.

  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    People aren't buying hifi systems. Music is played on mobile phones mostly and listened to with small earpods. So it's not like it would make any difference.

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