MP3曾彻底改变过我们的生活，但是现在时代又变了

MP3已经死了，在这一切完全改变之前，让我们告诉你为什么……

MP3格式曾改变过我们的听歌生活。不像CD，你可以在电脑，笔记本，MP3播放器上随时播放，这要感谢 The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits发明的压缩方式。但是随着研究和科技发展，MP3也要被淘汰了。

现在，另一种形式AAC，或者说“Advanced Audio Coding”由同样的开发者完成了，可将音质压缩的更好。这可能很快淘汰MP3格式。现在MP3格式的发明者说MP3变得很过时。现在是时候用更好的产品了。

MP3格式其实刚开始就被判了死刑，因为开发MP3格式的工程师们给我们听到的比我们能接受的声音少。新音频格式，将会提供给我们大脑所能接收的声音更多的细节，而流媒体服务将会让改革更加容易。现在，是时候按计划行事了。

作为开发者，Bernhard Grill告诉NPR，AAC现在实际上手机上是音乐&视频下载的标准格式，而这比MP3格式更加高效，更加有用。

安息吧MP3！我们90后的孩子可能会因为情怀而湿了眼眶，但我们的耳朵将享受更高音质的音乐啦。

MP3 is dead. But, before that totally weirds you out, here’s why…

The revolutionary MP3 file format changed the game of music listening forever. Instead of physical CDs you could store weightless files and listen from your desktop, laptop or portable MP3 player — thanks to a compression algorithm developed by The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. As research and technology advanced, however, the MP3 files never did.

Since then, another audio format, AAC — or “Advanced Audio Coding” was brought to fruition in part by the same developers, and took compression and quality to the next level. This should have killed MP3 files right away, but instead we clung to what we knew. Now, MP3 is officially becoming obsolete, as announced by its creators. It’s time to move on to bigger and better (or technically, smaller) quality things.

MP3 was actually doomed from the start, as the engineers who developed the MP3 worked on less complete information on how our brains process sound. New audio formats with richer information are constantly being created, and streaming services make adapting to the changes even easier. So, it’s time to get with the program.

As the director, Bernhard Grill told NPR, AAC is now the “de facto standard for music download and videos on mobile phones” and “more efficient than MP3 and offers a lot more functionality.”

R.I.P. MP3… Our inner 90s kid may shed a tear over the nostalgic term, but our ears are happy for the higher quality music to come.