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Chromium To Get Support For MP3 (browsernative.com)
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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Wine just announced it fixed the last compatiblity issues and Notepad is now a Platinum-certified app.
Notepad was rated as "Platinum" as of Wine 1.1.36. https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...
Wine 1.1.36 released on January 8th of 2010. https://source.winehq.org/git/...
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What miracle of patent law has produced this marvel? Oh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
the default should be to use whatever your OS offers up as the default viewer for some MIME type.
So always use the operating system's pack-in browser? For several years, "the default viewer for some MIME type" on the majority of newly purchased PCs for values of "some MIME type" equal to "text/html" was Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. If relying on operating system components known to be deficient were a good practice, we'd be using NetCaptor or other wrappers for Trident and its successor EdgeHTML instead of Firefox and Chrome.
And on stock macOS, Ogg isn't among the containers, and Vorbis isn't among the codecs, that Core Audio can read. This means "the default viewer for some MIME type" for values of "some MIME type" equal to "audio/ogg" raises KeyError.
I've got some old postage-stamp sized videos to watch, dammit!
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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.
Amazon still sells MP3 files. This means when you click "Buy this album for offline listening" or "Buy this album for use after your subscription expires", and you're not using an Apple service, you get a phonorecord in MP3 format.
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the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adobe, Adobe, Adobe (and a little Apple) :)
The move to play stuff natively comes from the role that Flash once played and our collective horrified reaction. We did the "let the OS handle it" and we got Quicktime. We did the "let the browser load plugins" and we got Flash and the horrifying Acrobat plugins, and some more Quicktime.
Compared to that hot mess, the vulnerabilities allowed by the javascript PDF rendering code have been fairly mild.
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Can someone explain me why MP3 are already working when open with Chrome?
MP3 certainly isn't a modern, top-tier format. But there's an awful lot of legacy mp3 data out there, so it's good to be able to take advantage of that in a free and open browser.
One nice thing about patents, I suppose, is that we do have time on our side. With the volume of tech that's being patented, the low-hanging fruit has largely been snapped up (for example, I believe Amazon's One-Click patent expires very soon), and in another few decades, most of the formats we now use (like MP4 video) will also be free and clear. It won't be the latest and greatest, but at some point, we're going to run into some hard limits about how far we can compress video as well. Eventually, it won't be worth patenting new formats that can compress video 2% more than the previous well-established format, and ALL formats will be patent free. Eventually.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
It's a nostalgia kick. Remenber when web sites would play sounds in the background in IE4 using the tag? You're going to just LOVE those audio ads that will play when you go to a web site and you can't figure out which tab is the culprit. Makes as much sense as
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
If you care about bandwidth that much just use Opus.
there's nothing wrong with a high bit rate MP3, except that it's maybe a MB or two bigger than an equivalent AAC. If it lacked quality it would be different.
It lacks quality. Even on regular gear with my bad 39 years old ears I can ABX 320kbit MP3 on specific samples, trained people can do so on typical (rather than specifically chosen) MP3s.
On the other hand, 128kbit Opus is fully transparent in quiet rooms on expensive gear, while 96kbit is enough for regular listening conditions. OGG and AAC are somewhat worse, but not drastically so.
There's no reason to use MP3 unless you suffer from ancient software you can't update.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Every modern browser indicates which tabs are playing sounds by putting a little speaker icon on the tab, and I think they also all allow you to mute them by clicking the same speaker icon.
So no, finding out which tab is making noise is no longer an issue.
They're also smart enough that if the tab stops playing sound (e.g., paused), the speaker icon disappears, so only tabs actively playing sound now are shown. And the mute status is held per-tab until it's closed, so if you mute it, it stops, then starts playing sound again, it comes back still muted.
Don't they all, apart from Spotify (which uses vorbis), use mp3?
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?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
We didn't have tabs back in IE4.
It lacks quality. Even on regular gear with my bad 39 years old ears I can ABX 320kbit MP3 on specific samples, trained people can do so on typical (rather than specifically chosen) MP3s.
I find that very hard to believe. Which encoder settings did you use? Did you do proper double-blind ABX tests?
Eat the rich.
Sure you did - just had to use the MyIE (later Maxthon) add-on. Introduced tabs to IE in IE4.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Last I tried, I was able to reliably ABX 128 kbps Opus vs. lossless (sourced from CD rip of a single track) nine times in a row with a decent pair of studio headphones. That being said, it's really hard to tell the difference in normal usage. Opus is quite a versatile codec. I hope to see hardware codec support in consumer devices.
I haven't yet investigated how well Opus handles inter-sample peaks, though MP3 is somewhat infamous for failing in this area vs. AAC.