Which mp3 player is it? How often have you changed the battery? Because if it's so old that it can't play a better format than mp3, it must be really old.Originally Posted by Jazzmarazz
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Which mp3 player is it? How often have you changed the battery? Because if it's so old that it can't play a better format than mp3, it must be really old.
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Call me crazy but I think this is very reasonable.
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No it isn't. I re:encode every flac album I get into mp3, and keep both encodes. Mp3's will play on *EVERY* device I have. Every device I have can use removable memory, which is so cheap it's virtually unlimited. I have a sealed 32GB MicroSD card sitting in my desk right now, because I don't even need it.
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Literally the first "mp3 player" that came up on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1264866011
It supports:
1. .AA (audible)
2. FLAC
3. MP3
4. Ogg Vorbis
5. WAV
6. WMA
7. WMA (secure)
If you have devices that only support mp3, then you have odd/old devices. It certainly doesn't represent the majority of devices out there.
Last edited by Nick Naim; 8th-May-2015 at 02:47.
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Ask the next person on the street what files they load onto their music device. It will not be an OGG.
And to answer your question, I use an 8GB zune from 2007 cause yeah.
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I'm pretty sure 'the next person on the street' wouldn't know their hole from an ass in the ground, when it comes to codec technology. iPods are still the most popular, dedicated PMPs and they have always supported aac. In fact, aac is the default codec that itunes rips to. They are not using mp3 for a reason.
Apart from that, at this point android phones are probably the most used devices to play music portably, by far, and they support aac and vorbis.
Even those supported aac.And to answer your question, I use an 8GB zune from 2007 cause yeah.
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Why are people still using CD (or much worse; compressed digital formats) instead of SACD or DVD-Audio?
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Why would they use them? There is no discernible difference to human ears between SACD/DVD-Audio and CDs.
Their only advantage might be the capacity to deliver surround sound, but how many people have surround sound systems?
But physical media for music release as a whole is a waste of space and plastic, including CDs. Lossless digital encodes should be preferred.
Last edited by Nick Naim; 8th-May-2015 at 05:20.
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You just nailed your own coffin on that one!
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Nobody has said only. We've said mp3 works on everything, because it does. Nobody would even bother bringing a device to market without mp3 support.
Feel free to look at Amazon and find us a music player that doesn't support mp3.
And you don't seem to be aware what that reason is. Here's a hint, it doesn't have anything to do with quality.
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The same could be said about wav. In fact, if we're going for the absolute widest user base, wav should be the choice, because I'm sure someone out there is still rocking a 486 PC, not to mention all the flip phones from 15 years ago.
That's really not the point.
If it doesn't have anything to do with quality, then why does aac (encoded with the better encoders) consistently rank high in listening tests? Do you think apple wants the audio format it uses to be known as low quality?And you don't seem to be aware what that reason is. Here's a hint, it doesn't have anything to do with quality.
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They don't. Of course patents contributed to their choice, but so did codec quality.
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That Apple audio originally had DRM iirc. Look, it's all shit just accept it and move on.
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