Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 days agoWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?message-square530fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square530fedilink
minus-squareFalseMyrmidon@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoYeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoOh yeah. 128k rips from back then were rough. MP3 has gotten somewhat better then, to be fair. V0 VBR is still perfectly fine to listen to; it’s just not as efficient as the newer codecs.
minus-squarebob_lemon@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-219 days 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.
Yeah, I’m thinking of circa 2000 MP3s. 128k was the good stuff and lower was still common.
Oh yeah. 128k rips from back then were rough. MP3 has gotten somewhat better then, to be fair. V0 VBR is still perfectly fine to listen to; it’s just not as efficient as the newer codecs.
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.