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I hate that mp3 became the standard and not .ogg, it can store better quality in similar filesizes and yet everyone decides to use mp3.
Sure, flac/wav files are the best when it comes to audio quality but they take too much space, especially if you're storing your whole audio library on your phone.
FLAC or bust. Stupid to have a lossy standard when storage is cheap.
MP3 is ca. 5x as old. There was no Ogg back then.
Btw, why does the CPU need support for a audio/video format and not the DAC/GPU?
And I hate that Opus, being even better than ogg, is even less spread out.
Artists could just release files from their own website in all of the forms available. If they get so god damned little of the money Spotify and other steal from them, they should just release for better terms themselves equivalent to listening to music 24hours a day. Then you can just connect with whatever is on the network run by those artists.
A fediverse streaming audio paid with a subscription where 100 percent of your membership goes to the music you listened to. The artist's should then have to pay the fediverse audio to be a member of the network so they the network can pay the tech overhead. Which If it's kept super simple and intentionally NOT a SOCIAL media app, just a straight up media app.
Then artists could also have more control over what and where they get played. Could be an administration nightmare but a worthy challenge to offer such an amazing thing.
I would try to revive winamp through the fediverse somehow
Make it, then.
It's a good as way as any to discover just how intractable a business problem it really is, especially when you have deeply entrenched interests manipulating the industry.
I don't have that skillset, nor do I have the luxury or comfort to gain that skillset. I have too many problems of my own Im ready failing at managing
That was a valid claim ten twenty years ago, but today?
And I mean it's not hard to make 256/320 MP3 out of those wave files either if you're on some el cheapo phone.
It's got to be because people liked the name/extension better, right? MP3 was so much easier to pronounce and cooler sounding than ogg. Same thing with DivX.