Eugen Rochko
Apparently some media outlets also run a story about how "mp3 is dead" because its patent run out. Wtf. In what fucking way.
May 16, 2017 at 11:41amWeb
Show threadEugen RochkoMay 16, 2017
How can it be dead if Stallman can finally use it?
Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCMay 16, 2017

@Gargron very creative definitions of what 'dead' means.

Although we should probably be using something like ogg or flac anyway.

Show threadpettter ✅May 16, 2017
@gargron Anything that doesn't extract value and provides profit is dead.
Show threadRadiolaria Ⓜ️May 16, 2017
@Gargron I think it actually *is* a requirement… :p
Show threadRicardusMay 16, 2017
@Gargron Now all purists can use it as well. it will be more popular than ever.
Show threadSandro HawkeMay 16, 2017
@Gargron Of course, without patent royalties, how could it possibly support all the people slaving away in factories, compressing music
Show thread☀ FlowFXMay 16, 2017
@Gargron yeah. That's very strange.
Show threadFrankie SaxxMay 16, 2017
@Gargron in a "We don't understand technology. Or patents." way.
Show threadAlex EnkerliMay 16, 2017
@Gargron Or because the Fraunhofer Institute is apparently advocating for AAC. Nobody talking about Ogg? https://ask.audio/articles/mp3-is-dead-expired-patents-and-why-aac-is-a-better-compressed-audio-format
Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCMay 16, 2017
@Gargron I just had this conversation with Felicity about 15 minutes ago.
Show threadNobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]May 16, 2017
Now is the beginning of .mp3's life, because everyone is free to use it (or use pieces of it) wherever they choose.
Show threadAlex EnkerliMay 16, 2017
@lnxw48a1 @Gargron Pieces may indeed be the interesting part. It's one thing to finally move encoders from Non-Free to Free. It’s another to take a de facto standard apart and build on the pieces.
But, again, how about the other unencumbered formats?
Show threadNobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]May 16, 2017
@enkerli @gargron That was my thought: if there is some piece of mp3 that could benefit opus, now they are free to use it.
Show threadplsburydoughboy (I/het/him)May 16, 2017
@Gargron they cant profit off it anymore
Show threadHamish The PolarBearMay 16, 2017
@Gargron They are part of the capitalist machine that is designed to make you buy new stuff, whether the old stuff still works or not.
Show threadStefanie SchulteMay 16, 2017
@Gargron This article (in German) seems more accurate: https://futurezone.at/digital-life/mp3-ist-nicht-tot-ganz-im-gegenteil/264.122.349#.WRrAa4oqfmc.twitter
Show threadTomas SA2TMSMay 16, 2017
I for one am waiting for low-bitrate MP3s to become retro
Show threadMuto 👁May 16, 2017
@Gargron Time to switch to OGG-Vorbis and Opus
Show threadtxt.fileMay 16, 2017
@Gargron mp3 should die. I want ogg, vorbis and flac to raise.
Show threadAlexMay 16, 2017
@Gargron The thing that always worries me: If journalists are wrong so often when they write about stuff I understand well, I should probably assume they are just as often wrong on stuff which I don't know well enough to call them out.
Show thread(Moved)May 16, 2017
@Gargron Shouldn't that mean it's now *alive*, free to live its own life?
I like how BoingBoing, every January 1, has a big list of cool and interesting things that would be entering the public domain and now 100% free for people to enjoy and mess with... if it weren't for Mickey Mouse.
Show threadVacuum Forest 🌳May 16, 2017

@Gargron 1. People don't know what a patent is.

2. People don't know what a MP3 actually is other than "music".

3. A "news story" today is typically an assemblage of words and grunting sounds that reference something that is "important", although nobody is sure how that works.