A German Foundation, which owns the patent for MP3 audio format and licenses it, has announced that it’s abandoning the licenses to the format. The foundation has supported the use of better formats like AAC family or MPEG-H. While this move won’t end the use of MP3 instantly, it’s a symbolic move that’ll help other audio formats grow.
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the German foundation which owns the patent for MP3 audio format and licenses it, has announced that it’ll be no longer be supporting the format. Wondering why? Because they believe that better ways to store music have appeared on the scene and MP3’s retirement should help those formats.
Here’s what Fraunhofer Institute’s official statement has to say:
On April 23, 2017, Technicolor’s mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated.
Fraunhofer Institute says that most of the well-known streaming, TV, or radio service providers are now using ISO-MPEG codecs like AAC family or MPEG-H.
MP3’s termination won’t be killing its usage instantly. People will continue to use MP3 as they don’t need a license. However, this move is symbolic and is in favor of superior audio formats. Still, MP3 music format is something we grew up with and it’ll find a place in history books.
Umezi delete hehe were you drunk or s omething
anyways sasa mtu kaa mimi…and this just the album folder …sii electro and riddims folder+sound tracks folder
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yes. si lazima iupload, it just scans the tags, then look into it’s database and add from it’s db. kama haina then it will upload it.
I can stream other songs too so no need for Spotify or Pandora. This is for those rainy day nikikosa kulipia subscription
But if tidal failed how many more will keep on trying to sell this bs.Sawa i get the clarity but its not worth for long term storage
Cause some music isn’t on em…plus i also lost all my riddim collection from 2005-2013.I had every fucking riddim that droppedn on the websites…disk ilicrash nayo mjinga campo stole the dead hard disk.I have been able top replace everything in my hard disk apart from riddims.
I have tried everything. I was installing an Os and absentmindedly chose the wrong partition by the time I realized it had been formated and overwritten. The thing is that I had done it so many times without messing up at all.
70gb is less than ma daily music driver folder kwa ma laptops (in case of the occasional black outs cuz usb tings hula battery charge)
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Bruh stop talking what you don’t get spotify and pandora hazina discography zote za mse.Plus if you are an audiophile what matters nikuwa na hewa when you need it.Si story stima kupotea as has been the case lately then hauna way unaweza play your music cuz haiko youtube,pandora or spotify.@Deorro solution is the only one thats is feasible although mimi all my music is in megasync 6 50gb accounts si rahisi kumaintain but worth it.