MP3 format withdraws from the historical stage
source: China Economic Network - economic daily Author: Niu Jin
that is how unfamiliar to the audio format, it must be heard Pass MP3. Recently, the Fraunhofer Institute of integrated circuits, which invented the MP3 audio format, announced that it had terminated the authorization of some MP3 related patents. This means that the organization does not continue to support this format, and users will no longer have channels to download audio to MP3 format in the future, instead of AAC format.
galloping for more than 20 years MP3 has become a beautiful memory and sentimental sentiment has spread in the 1980s and 1990s. Yes, the most beautiful MP3, we are still students, this "much smaller, sound sound" audio format is almost the same as "black technology". As a result, the Internet bar, in addition to playing games, also open the music software such as TT Player to download MP3 - Format songs; so, many people's birthday wishes list, secretly added an option with a MP3 player.
but after calming down, we may be sad that we can never return to our youth. Because technical progress will eliminate many of the things that let people nostalgic, MP3 out of the history stage is only once again staged to kill the waves on the beach, as the original CD was replaced by the MP3.
benefits from small volume, portability, low cost and so on. MP3 has defeated the CD discs, and has promoted the sale of MP3 players and other products. Nowadays, although it still takes the lead in the download domain, it has no advantage in the rising streaming music market. Unfortunately, in 2016, sales of streaming services and records exceeded digital downloads. This shows that the industry is changing, people's pursuit of sound quality is gradually increasing, and coding is the trend; since MP3 format is unable to show its charm in the emerging field, it is also logical to be eliminated.
not to mention, the MP3 player has been disappearing in just a few years before the MP3 audio playback format is stopped. The direct reason behind this is that after the advent of the mobile phone especially the smartphone, its playback function has gradually replaced the MP3 player, and the consumer does not need to spend more money, and the only small capacity is stored, and the MP3 player is on the decline. Hardware products that support MP3 format have been reduced to a certain extent, which has accelerated the demise of MP3 audio format.
in addition to the upgrading of audio technology, it is also an important reason for MP3 format to stop music copyright protection.
at the beginning, MP3 format led music to enter the digital age with an explosive posture. But because it is free of charge, anyone can copy CD, produce, copy and disseminate music files to anyone. At the end of the 90s of last century, with the advent of the Internet, these MP3 music documents spread quickly on the Internet, creating a wave of digital piracy, and the records that had been favored by consumers began to be in the corner with the dust. The survey published in March 1999 by the American Association for recording industry also confirmed this judgment. The results of the survey showed that the prevalence of MP3 became an important factor in reducing the purchase of music CD for 15 to 24 year old consumer groups. As early as the MP3 format was booming, the world's five major record companies adopted a boycott attitude. The copyright of
MP3 is chaotic and fragmented, so it is "abandoned" at the moment of the strict protection of copyright, and the digital album has become a new way of music release, and many singers benefit from it. With Lu Han's "Imagination" album published in April 19th as an example, up to now, the sales of the cool dog music platform have exceeded 450 thousand, and the sales have exceeded 2 million 200 thousand yuan by 5 yuan.
of course, even without authorization, it does not mean that the MP3 format will disappear from our life immediately. For a long time, there will still be a lot of music coming to our ears in this format. After all, there is a precedent to follow. GIF's patent expired more than 10 years ago, but it can still be seen everywhere in social networks. Moreover, the AAC as a successor is not unassailable. Although it is superior to MP3 format, it still belongs to lossy compression, and the prospect is not optimistic.
, so we don't have to keep MP3, say goodbye to it gently, and then try something else.