On 18/01/17 08:49, dennis@home wrote:
On 18/01/2017 02:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Nope. The problem with digital MP3 is not the sample rate, its the
digital compression that is applied.

Its not lossless.



Well people don't knowwhat MP3 stands for.
Its MPEG layer 3 audio.
It was always lossy and designed to fit videos onto CDs and DVDs not for
hifi.
They soon dropped it when bluray arrived and went for master audio which
is uncompressed.


It was (and still is) a popular format for so called Video-CDs in China.

And it's OK in that context. It was a huge mistake allowing it to become
the de-facto for plain audio though.