So what format do you think will Succeed the mp3?

[twisterX]

Sometime in the future mp3 will not be needed becuase of the larger space avaliable and greater internet speeds. Also it is very old compared to some newer formats such as ACC, OGG Vorbis ect.

What do you think will take over?

[GepperRankins]

mp3 :dabs:

[Barbarossa]

.mp3 has become synonymous with digital music. Hence mp3-players. I don't think they'll evolve into oggplayers, or maybe they will :unsure:

It's a very good question though, I mean, if bandwidth and space isn't an issue then why aren't we all swapping .wavs now? :huh:

[4play]

nothing will, it's just too widely used and decent quality for the size to be replaced by anything.

[bashnu]

unless they find a way to compress it even more with higher quality and then call it something else

[Barbarossa]

The record companies would love to invent such a format, and then riddle it with DRM. :no:

[Damnatory]

I would actually think that with the type of bandwidth that is being used now, and the amount of storage space that most people own, that there won't actually be any need to use a compression format. WAV files may get their chance again. :ermm: :ph34r:

[twisterX]

Or FLAC. I read something that said that the mp3 format is missing features that are in more recent formats and they cant just be added in.

mp3 can't go on forever.

[4play]

Its true mp3 cant go on forever but flac, shn and ape are so unknown by most people it will be a long time before any of them take off. They are really only used widely by enthusiasts that record live shows so they can retain all of the sub standard quality most of these shows are recorded at.

Your average consumer really couldnt tell the difference between an mp3 at 192kbps and a cd. Until peoples hearing suddenly improves or 5.1 becomes standard for new music we are stuck with mp3.

[Wolfmight]

mpeg-4 audio is what iTunes uses. Maybe that will someday. Mp4?

[twisterX]

You mean ACC

[params7]

aac is the closest right now to replace mp3.
On internet radio like di.fm, an 24kbps AAC+ stream almost manages to provide the same quality as 128 kbps Mp3 stream, and uses only 2-4 kBps bandswidth to stream. One could 'EASILY' fit around 2 hours of good music into a 24kbps aac+ stream and have it only reach 15mb on max.

regualr AAC also cuts down on half the size of an mp3 and provides the same quality.

[erRor67]

any new format will be drm protected... Its no supprise that the RIAA will be forcing the developer to implement drm.

MP3 is okay with me. The only thing that would be cool to at is 5.1 sound. I recall "Mp3 surround" being created but that never took off.

[silent h3ro]

mp4

[unistructure]

MP3 will probably stay for quite a while as it is the format thats compatible with most audio devices and et cetera. But in terms of high quality codecs I'd say FLAC would be the next wave to come

[twisterX]

mp4

MP4 is video. :lol:

And does FLAC support DRM. mp3 doesn't and i hope FLAC doesn't either.

[madden player]

MP4 is video. :lol:

It's more like a container.

[mouse4j]

If Microsoft has its way, it's going to be wma. I'd rather see flac or something similarly lossless. I don't think we'll see mp3 supplanted any time soon.