Comments on: Are we saying goodbye to MP3?

By: jan2x

jan2x — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:09:47 +0000

Actually it’s not the format, it’s the patent system in the US. Say we move to .ogg because it’s open, but what if 5 years down the road another company is going to sue Apple or Microsoft because .ogg that they are currently supporting is violating their patent.

By: jetza

jetza — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:24:30 +0000

Not yet, but soon.

By: KenMikaze

KenMikaze — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:45:55 +0000

MP3′s are now an endangered specie; a number of Linux OS Distros don’t have its codec on their initial installation and would have you download a third-party codec from their repositories. Why? Because Fraunhofer Institute sold the technology to Microsoft. It’s a good thing Alcatel-Lucent won the case, but sure do hope that they re-release it as open-source. Anyway, down with RIAA-MPAA, who wants full control of the ripping business. It’s they who continually rip our pockets by selling over-priced records and movies anyway.

By: RonC

RonC — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:46:10 +0000

I don’t believe this is the end for MP3 specially here in the Philippines. As long as there are programs like LAME installed on my computer, MP3 will be alive (at least for me). If there’s another audio format that will replace MP3, it must be .Ogg

By: jdavies

jdavies — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:48:29 +0000

this has been a hot post on digg recently. I wonder myself what’s gonna happen — of course i’m just waiting to see how it goes since MS could be giving it a spin.

Far more interesting is 2 other groups claim the mp3 rights. Since its the most widely used format, it’s bound to get interesting…

By: Fleeb

Fleeb — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:10:31 +0000

So what will happen to LAME now?

By: tanemer

tanemer — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:24:17 +0000

AAC is actually brought to you by the same research group that developed MP3 – Fraunhofer Institute. It is actually a more advanced audio codec. MP3 is actually MPEG 1 Layer 3. They have more advanced audio codecs now in development. They also have a lossless audio codec standard.

Still the bottom line is you have to pay royalties if you want to develop an MP3/AAC player or if you want to sell an MP3/AAC software player.

By: Of Blog Networks and MP3s » @ YugaTech | Philippine Technology News & Reviews

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:13:14 +0000

[...] at PTB, I wondered if the recent Alcatel-Lucent suit against Microsoft marks the beginning of MP3’s demise as a popular/universal audio [...]

By: naksd

naksd — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:25:58 +0000

Ogg Vorbis is a Nice audio format, hate the name and hardware player support is lagging.

AAC on the other hand, i tried it and sounds as good as Ogg Vorbis and the HE-AAC, Beats WMA at low bitrates (32 to 64 kbit)

But i will stick to MP3′s for now since i don’t have an Ipod or any other audio player that can read AAC or Ogg.