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Chromium To Get Support For MP3 (browsernative.com)

Posted by msmash on from the it's-happening dept.

An anonymous reader shares a post: Chromium, the open source project behind Google Chrome, Opera and several other browsers, is going to support MP3. This would enable users and websites to play MP3 files in Chromium browser. A Chromium contributor informed about this, "We have approval from legal to go ahead and move MP3 into non-proprietary codecs list." The MP3 support in Chromium is targeted for version 62.

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  1. Re:In other exciting news... by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Besides there's nothing wrong with a high bit rate MP3, except that it's maybe a MB or two bigger than an equivalent AAC.

    When you're paying $5 to $10 per GB for satellite or cellular Internet access, "a MB or two" begins to add up over the course of a triple digit hours per month of streaming.

  2. Open source audio beats mp3 by TheDarkener · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be nice to see Ogg/Opus (and even it's predicessor Vorbis) be as widely used as proprietary codecs. Is the world so commercialized that this kind of thinking is impossible though?

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