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workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  For sure. You weren’t gonna hear the difference on your $2 headphones or the speakers connected to your monitor anyway.

  Plus, file size was king. My first mp3 player (drink dmp 90) had 16MB of internal memory and used those original SD cards for more (up to 32MB, but who could afford that?).

  So 128kbps offered a really great compromise because it was still better than FM.

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