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Never in my life did I suspect MP3s would go away

submitted by Trope to technology 6 daysApr 23, 2025 10:23:11 ago (+26/-1)     (technology)

Maybe a better file format in time. Like maybe FLAC or Orbis would pickup. It made sense that physical media began to go by the wayside: Vinyl records, 8-Track tapes, cassette tapes, optical discs. We finally landed on the digital mp3 computer file format in that late 90s / early 2000s. Now you could curate your entire collection on a hard disk, Solid State Disk, or Memory Card.

That was the pinnacle. The peak. Now people use mobile phones which have less functionality than a desktop computer (Making the youth non-proficient with technology) and now they pay for streaming services. Didn’t see that coming.


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AI coding is already useable if you know what you're doing. I might see if I can get AI to build me a music player in the Android SDK... haven't written Java for years (and never Kotlin) but I bet I could pick it up again if I can find the time.