MP3 Losing Steam?

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
After years as the unrivaled king of the digital-media world, the venerable MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies from Microsoft and Apple Computer.
MP3 is still the overwhelming favorite of file traders, but the once-universal format's popularity has been going quietly but steadily down in personal music collections for the last year. According to researchers at The NPD Group's MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people's hard drives, the percentage of MP3-formatted songs in digital-music collections has slid steadily in recent months, down to about 72 percent of people's collections from about 82 percent a year ago. "People are still getting MP3s and putting them on hard drives but are deleting them at a rate faster than they're acquiring them," said Isaac Josephson, a researcher at NPD MusicWatch Digital. "People tend to think that downloads are more disposable than rips (copies from a CD), and currently, the lion's share (of MP3s) are downloads."
Source: c|net

Comments

  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited October 2004
    mp3 is still all I use, except for the occassional .ogg or .flac

    you definitely wont find me touching WMA, and AAC would require me to use iTunes, which I despise
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    What TheBaron said. :D
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Ditto.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    It's AAC and iTunes for me :D
  • BLuKnightBLuKnight Lehi, UT Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    MP3 all the way.
  • NosferatuNosferatu Arizona
    edited October 2004
    MP3
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited October 2004
    Am I the only newbie that still rips WMAs? The overwhelming majority of my collection is mp3, but I need to convert my WMAs when it comes time to burn CDs. :(
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    There are other formats? :wtf::scratch::confused:
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    Exactly.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    To me, the only lossy alternative to MP3 is OGG, and it's slower to rip than MP3, so I usually don't use it.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    I use ogg when I rip things. If I download, of course its mp3.
  • RiddickRiddick Malaysia Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    am-pee-three. <3
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited October 2004
    "The NPD Group's MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people's hard drives"

    WTF!!!!!
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    FLAC.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    TheGr81 wrote:
    Am I the only newbie that still rips WMAs? The overwhelming majority of my collection is mp3, but I need to convert my WMAs when it comes time to burn CDs. :(

    Nope, I always rip new CDs I get to WMA with WMP10, and I DL songs in WMA w/MSN Music now...so I don't really use mp3 at all, I still have a lot of them but don't really aquire any new ones now.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    I use the FM and AM file formats! :eek:
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited October 2004
    hehe
    It's still mp3 for me too. I don't believe you'll have a revolution like when the mp3 format was introduced.
  • comfortablecomfortable Sugarland, TX
    edited October 2004
    Armo wrote:
    "The NPD Group's MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people's hard drives"

    WTF!!!!!

    Yeah, that raised an eyebrow here, too.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited October 2004
    glad to see it wasnt just me
  • groove
    edited October 2004
    MPC is the future
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2004
    I still use MP3 myself too.
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