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Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? (hackaday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

There are much better open source codecs available now. Unfortunately, MP3 is lossy, so you can't convert it to any other format without degrading the quality. That means it will stick around for a long time since many people have large MP3 collections.