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Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the …

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I’ve never seen a single flac file in the wild in the last eight years. You have to look specifically for them.

Wav files are far more common than flacc.
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  Have you ever used Bandcamp before?
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