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		magila on May 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The licensing program for MP3-related patents has ... It's the best codec in every dimension. It's royalty free, has low encoding delay, and has clearly superior compression efficiency.

eropple on May 1, 2017 [–]

> It's the best codec in every dimension

Battery life efficiency? MP3 is usually in hardware, these days. And battery life matters a lot.

(Not a gotcha--I have no idea.)

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