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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story. MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free.

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“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story. MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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    The duration of software patents is completely absurd and in a just society would immediately be halved. That said, at any possible point I have totally ditched this ancient technology in favor of the vastly superior Opus.

    Edit: just noticed this was published in 2017, which makes much more sense with my understanding of when mp3 was developed.

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      “Halved?” No. There should not be software patents. They are good for nothing.

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        You can theoretically extend that logic to any patent. However this only works in a world that’s not profit-centric.

    • 𝓒𝓸𝓼𝓶𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓽@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I would totally switch to OPUS as soon as it supports embedding album art.

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        What’s the use case for that? Would mkv solve your need?

        What you ask for already exists.
        https://opus-codec.org/docs/opus-tools/opusenc.html

        • 𝓒𝓸𝓼𝓶𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓽@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Well damn! That’s great!

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        Iirc that’s an issue with ffmpeg. Opus itself can do that. I also stumbled upon that once.

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