“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story
Wait, people thought mp3 was dead because of that announcement?! O_o I feel like people have lost touch with the history and the entire reason many Linux distros do not distribute mp3 codecs!<p>Some of these writers&#x2F;editors really need to spend each day reading at least one headline from that day in 2016, 2015 .. all the way back to 1999.<p>MP3 is now more free&#x2F;libre, or at least when it comes to encoding&#x2F;decoding. Patents are one of the reasons people have been so hesitant about H.264 and why we see things like WebM.<p>Personally, I&#x27;ve encoded in FLAC for years, and even in the early days (2003-ish) I was backing up CDs to oggs instead of mp3s. Unless you&#x27;re really concerned about space today, download your music in a lossless format. Sites like Bandcamp and CDBaby now support lossless (FLAC and ALAC)