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Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? (hackaday.com)
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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I listen to mp3 all the time. Back in the Napster days I collected a ton of music, but moreover I'm a fan of Old Time Radio from the 30s and 40s, so I accumulated around 10,000 of those shows. More than I'll ever have time to listen to. Audiophiles may deride the quality level, but I don't believe in letting perfection be the enemy of good. And even if "computers" - whatever that even means anymore lol - drop support for mp3, there will always be software that plays it as long as there are people with big collections of files they don't want to take the trouble to convert to something else.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

The man with the action packed expense account.

[–] aliceblossom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That sounds fascinating. If I were interested in those shows, where would I start? Are there at least some that are easily listenable to on the open internet?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Biggest free download site is probably https://www.oldradioworld.com/

There's also the Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

If you like sci-fi I highly recommend X Minus One - https://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/X_Minus_One.php

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Check out the many OTR Gold podcasts that have the serialized shows as episodes.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I freaking love old time radio, that stuff is great!