@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months agoWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?message-square544fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down15
arrow-up1288arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square544fedilink
minus-squareFalseMyrmidonlinkfedilink20•3 months agoYeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•edit-23 months agoBack 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-23 months agoOh 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.
Yeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
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.
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.