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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Back when a 4 minute song was like 1.5MB so you could fit more music on your 256MB mp3 player because you could not afford an iPod.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh yeah. 128k rips from back then were rough. MP3 has gotten somewhat better since then, to be fair. V0/V1 VBR is still perfectly fine to listen to; it's just not as efficient as the newer codecs.