The MP3 is finally...dead!

And yet for all practical purposes MP3 is indistinguishable from Redbook CD by a panel of expert listeners in controlled blind tests.

😀

"The lesson seems to be, simply, that our media will always be as exactly imperfect as we are"

No pun intended :-)

The first time I heard mp-3 maybe some 20+ odd years ago, I thought it was dead.

Not to put too fine a point on it but there are MP3s and MP3s of which I class the BBC Radio 3 broadcasts as some of the finest out there. They have always been famed for simple microphone techniques of which I have seen at many of the concerts I have attended in the fifty odd years of going
and witnessing a crossed pair and a spot for soloists. The usual way they are broadcast is on the BBC i Player at 320kbs and last year they broadcast the Proms in flac and to be honest I was hard pressed to tell the difference between the flac and the MP3 broadcasts. If you can , see if you can download a podcast in your region I'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised.