“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?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.At 256Kbps, the majority couldn't hear a difference between MP3 and AAC. At 128Kbps it is only slightly better.We dont have anything like HEVC which is an order of magnitude better then, say MPEG-2 at low bitrate.