I am a musician from the south of the UK, I like making music and playing with my synths. I've made game music and electronic music professionally in the past. I aim to keep on designing delightful and complex music for many years to come.
Age 32, Male
wood turner
Angmering high school
Brighton, UK
Joined on 10/26/15
MP3 is everywhere, it isn't going to just go away because the patent ran out. I'm aware there are vastly better formats out there by now, but I'm fairly certain mp3 is the best supported audio format out there (be in in browser, media player applications, portable players, car stereos, and what have you).
That all said, I'm all for making the shift to newer, better formats, but moving the entire world of the mammoth that is mp3 isn't going to be something that happens quickly.
We'll adapt to whatever is necessary, will be talking to Jim and Josh about it. With the MP3 patent expired I could actually see it being MORE broadly supporter, because software makers don't have to pay licensing fees like they did in the past - that's why the MP3 creators are pushing a new platform, so they can collect fees on something new. Still, I want us to support the best formats of the future.
Troisnyx
@TomFulp @NekoMika @Rig @Mich @liljim Thoughts? My guess is that we have to wait and see on that front, whether other DAWs follow suit, or buck the trend ourselves...
maxxpump
I'm not 100% sure when the makers of DAW's will follow, but to me it was worrying that the makers of lame said they were giving up the format. In the version of cubase I've got (Cubase 9 Elements), I had to buy a separate codec to burn off MP3 format, through Steinberg which states in the installer its directly from Fraunhofer. I went and did my weekly update a week ago and it stated my codec was no longer supported. I did a bit of research (I typed in MP3 into google and looked at the news and its all over the place. Will be interesting to see Tom's view on it and see if there is a contingency plan in place just incase. It just states everywhere that there will no longer by any support for MP3 format, and companies are no longer licensed to make encoders or decoders.
As i said in my last post it will be a right butt for me to upload in the future but as I'm mostly over the shock of seeing this I'll carry on with my external version of Lame (older version) if necessary.
But I don't see this as a good trend.