It's "unsupported" in the sense that they can no longer profitably charge
you for using it. MP3 is still used globally and a number of great open
source implementations and applications exists. Including, famously, LAME (
http://lame.sourceforge.net/).
AAC doesn't have this type of market penetration and may never achieve it,
even with Apple in its corner.
Steve
Steve Greene
Audiovisual Archivist
Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
National Archives and Records Administration
(301) 837-1772
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Eli Bildirici <
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> Ha! As usual, follow the money. Fraunhofer's relevant patents on MPEG-1
> Layer 3 audio are expiring - one of them already did back in April and the
> last two are out by the end of the year. They're winding it down now
> because soon enough a 'license' would be meaningless anyway and they want
> to move legacy customers on to the new hotness (preserving their revenue
> stream). That most news outlets, even specialized ones, are dutifully
> parroting the company line about 'obsolescence' is disheartening (even if
> the format has in fact been eclipsed in terms of efficiency by AAC and
> Opus). Expiring software patents = good news for everyone, and makes it
> more, not less, likely, by the way, that commercial services that use MP3
> downloads will stick to it.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Rosie Rowe <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 12:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Mp3 is officially dead
>
> >
> > FYI:
> >
> > http://www.sciencealert.com/the-mp3-is-officially-dead-
> after-its-creators-abandoned-it
> >
> > iPhone's fault.
> > Rosie Rowe
> > AV Specialist
>
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