{"id":210562,"date":"2017-05-13T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=210562"},"modified":"2017-05-13T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T09:21:48","slug":"mp3-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/210562-mp3-is-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"MP3 is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MP3 format is dead, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/12\/mp3-is-dead-long-live-aac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the institute which created the format, has\u00a0terminated licensing for multiple MP3-related patents.<\/p>\n<p>The institute did not want to &#8220;keep it on life support&#8221; as there are better ways to store music &#8211; including AAC.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Audio Coding is now the\u00a0&#8220;de facto standard for music download and videos on mobile phones&#8221; said the institute.<\/p>\n<p>It is more efficient and has greater functionality, it stated, and will take the place of the MP3 format.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/210448-ubuntu-suse-and-fedora-linux-comes-to-windows-store.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ubuntu, SUSE, and Fedora Linux comes to Windows Store<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MP3 format is dead, according to the institute which created it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":176989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43150,7411],"class_list":["post-210562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-aac","tag-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210564,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210562\/revisions\/210564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}