Mp3 is good enough. This time a year ago people were expecing MP4 by the first quarter of this year, and yet we still don't have it. At the time people were all excited over MP4 because it promised smaller file sizes for the same sound quality. Like 3mb instead of 4mb. A year later, who cares. A year ago I could buy a 4 gigabyte hard drive for $130, last week I bought a 15GB for $140. File size has become irrelevent, same with transmission, with more and more people getting high speed bandwidth, the difference between file sizes means less and less.
As I said before, MP3 sounds good enough for most people, even at 128kbs, if you bump that to 160 it's a lot better, and at 256kbs I doubt there are many people that can tell it from the CD.
Because all the different companies are pushing there own format, and becuase they all want it to be some format that makes it hard for the public to cheaply make there own compressed files, I think MP3 will continue as the king. MP3 started out and has grown huge as an underground, screw the big music companies and their $15 CD prices crap, movement. That is still it's biggest audience, and it is a huge audience. If a new format alienates those people,(that is to say, makes it impossible to easily copy your buddies CD) then they will never get anywhere, people will not leave mp3. The industry knows this, and is scared to death of it.
Again, MP3's, YES!!! MP3.com negatory good buddy.
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