“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story
AAC was introduced in 1997, does any one know when will its patents expire as well?<p>And we haven't had any improvement in Audio compression since then. MP3 - AAC and That is it. All the others are at best AAC similar quality / bitrate.<p>At 256Kbps, the majority couldn't hear a difference between MP3 and AAC. At 128Kbps it is only slightly better.<p>We dont have anything like HEVC which is an order of magnitude better then, say MPEG-2 at low bitrate.