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Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the …

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Its mostly been superseded by AAC, Opus and FLAC.
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  Mhmm I haven’t heard of the first two. I still listen to mp3s that I got from the 90s.

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