Comment on The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services

Zier@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• lauha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, flac is hardly superior.

  The files are HUGE and there is way less support for flac. The flac is inferior in a sense that the “revolution” would have never happened with flac.

  Then again, the whole comparison itself is dumb because it’s apples to oranges comparison, because mp3 is a older lossy codec and flac is newer lossless codec.

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Way less support? Maybe a decade ago. Today it’s pretty well supported in my experience.

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