The MP3 is dead, say creators after terminating licensing

[Hamartia Antidote]

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/15/mp3-dead-say-creators-after-terminating-licensing.html

The MP3 is dead, according to its creators, who say that the digital audio encoding format has lost relevance in a world of new technology.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, part of the German research body which funded the technology, has terminated its licensing program for certain MP3-related patents after almost two decades.

The institute said that while the MP3 is still popular with consumers, it has been outpaced by "more efficient audio codecs" with more advanced features.

Users will continue to be able to listen to MP3 files, however, without industry support for the format, a shift away from the technology to more progressive alternatives looks inevitable.

"Most state-of-the-art media services such as streaming or TV and radio broadcasting use modern ISO-MPEG codecs such as the AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) family or in the future MPEG-H," said Fraunhofer IIS in a press announcement.

"Those can deliver more features and a higher audio quality at much lower bitrates compared to mp3."

Fraunhofer IIS also helped create the more advanced AAC files, which are now predominantly used by iTunes, YouTube, Nintento, Nokia and other music audio systems.

The successor of the MP3 format, AAC is seen as providing improved sound quality within the same processing time.

The MP3 rose to prominence in the late 1990s and is credited with revolutionizing the way we listen to music by reducing file sizes by as much as 95 percent, allowing music listeners to fit dozens of albums on compact digital devices, instead of lugging CDs around with them.

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The players used to be pretty big. I think I spend $400 for it.

 

[jhungary]

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/15/mp3-dead-say-creators-after-terminating-licensing.html

The MP3 is dead, according to its creators, who say that the digital audio encoding format has lost relevance in a world of new technology.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, part of the German research body which funded the technology, has terminated its licensing program for certain MP3-related patents after almost two decades.

The institute said that while the MP3 is still popular with consumers, it has been outpaced by "more efficient audio codecs" with more advanced features.

Users will continue to be able to listen to MP3 files, however, without industry support for the format, a shift away from the technology to more progressive alternatives looks inevitable.

"Most state-of-the-art media services such as streaming or TV and radio broadcasting use modern ISO-MPEG codecs such as the AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) family or in the future MPEG-H," said Fraunhofer IIS in a press announcement.

"Those can deliver more features and a higher audio quality at much lower bitrates compared to mp3."

Fraunhofer IIS also helped create the more advanced AAC files, which are now predominantly used by iTunes, YouTube, Nintento, Nokia and other music audio systems.

The successor of the MP3 format, AAC is seen as providing improved sound quality within the same processing time.

The MP3 rose to prominence in the late 1990s and is credited with revolutionizing the way we listen to music by reducing file sizes by as much as 95 percent, allowing music listeners to fit dozens of albums on compact digital devices, instead of lugging CDs around with them.

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The players used to be pretty big. I think I spend $400 for it.

I think MP3 is actually the most influential software coding in the 90s and 00s, which pave the way how we watch film and TV today, as well as revolutionize Digital Radio industry.

A lot of hardware was created because of the MP3 format, iPod for one is the prime example.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I think MP3 is actually the most influential software coding in the 90s and 00s, which pave the way how we watch film and TV today, as well as revolutionize Digital Radio industry.

A lot of hardware was created because of the MP3 format, iPod for one is the prime example.

You could make the case that it saved Apple. I remember people thinking Steve Jobs was completely nuts for suddenly going into the music business. However that was a shrewd business move. Hooking people on ipods and then leading them to right to iPhones.

 

[jhungary]

You could make the case that it saved Apple. I remember people thinking Steve Jobs was completely nuts for suddenly going into the music business. However that was a shrewd business move. Hooking people on ipods and then leading them to right to iPhones.

lol, the A words is forbidden in my household, my mother was actually invested in Apple back in the 80s when they start selling Apple II (we also owned an Apple II) it was worth around less than a buck per....and she sold her share after they "peaked" at 2 dollars in early 90s..... Guess if she hasn't sold her share, with dividend and bonus, it would probably have worth more than 10 mil at the actual "Peak" last week...

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

lol, the A words is forbidden in my household, my mother was actually invested in Apple back in the 80s when they start selling Apple II (we also owned an Apple II) it was worth around less than a buck per....and she sold her share after they "peaked" at 2 dollars in early 90s..... Guess if she hasn't sold her share, with dividend and bonus, it would probably have worth more than 10 mil at the actual "Peak" last week...

Sounds like the ~$50,000 I spent on NVIDIA right after the IPO. I tried to hold on (I loved their cards) but it was flat or going down so I sold it - at a sizeable loss.

It's now up over 10,000% since the IPO. So I know how she feels about Apple.
Apple IIe? Oddly I was never that impressed with Apple II's. My school had a ~12 terminal minicomputer (which was far more powerful). So when the school bought 2 Apple II's everybody sort of ignored them due to playing the floppy drive waiting game and used the minicomputer instead. I only remember playing a wireframe Doom like (Dungeons and Dragons?) corridor game on it.