Simple fact of the matter is that pretty much all of the lossy codecs (AAC, Vorbis, MP3, etc) at a suitable bitrate can sound indistinguishable from the original. For sure, AAC and Vorbis can achieve this at slightly lower bitrates that MP3, but for all practical purposes they perform the same. If iPhone genuinely thinks he can easily detect MP3, I challenge him to do so in a proper ABX test, using normal music, at a sensible bit rate (let's say 256 VBR), using MP3s that were not encoded using one of the ancient broken programs like Xing.
The only other drawback I know of to MP3 is the theoretical lack of gapless playback, but the additional tags generated by the likes of LAME which are supported by the majority of players are a perfectly good workaround. So in summary: MP3 is not dead. Chances are that it will continue to be the predominant codec in use until ... well, until Elvis appears on stage in Las Vegas, or The Beatles get back together. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107413 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
