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[–] thechaoticchicken@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sounds fine at good bitrates, universally supported, small, efficient, everywhere.

Yeah, MP3 is just fine. Found zero reason to use any other format. And of course, while the rest of the world streams everything I'll be happily using my massive MP3 library I can fit on a tiny little storage device and take everywhere I go without the need for the interbutts and big brother keeping tabs of what I listen to.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to think this but the convenience won out. Now over holiday break, my teen discovered my crate of CDs that he doesn’t remember seeing in his lifetime!

And now I need to decide whether to buy a CD or DVD player to transfer to a more usable format - the last one I had was an old Xbox that is no longer with us

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

You can buy an external drive that plays both CD and DVD

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Find somewhere that accepts/generates ewaste and you might be able to score an internal CD/DVD drives. We were doing some reorganizing at work and I saw a literal box full of 5.25" drives

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

That’s a great idea, especially since I’m also trying to purge old stuff

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I don't use any one format. No idea what audio formats I have but probably a lot. Never cared, VLC takes them all.