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Originally Posted by underscore
Mp3 was great 20 years ago when we had space issues on hard disks.
So was divx for movies.
If you still use those mp3 in house as a substitute for your original cd's on the shelves, i suggest you to do rip them again in lossless formats like flac.
The quality of the cd with the advantage of computer management.
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MP3 is still great now.
Storage is still an issue on portable devices for those of us with extensive collections. There's also the problem of internet services in some areas having caps and excruciatingly slow upload speeds that already make it difficult for some (like me) to use online backups. By the end of the year, I expect my music collection to exceed the limits of a 256GB SD card (which I carry with me as an off-site backup since online isn't feasible) in MP3 format.
Then there's the time spent syncing my collection to the server and backups over the network each time I add to it and updating the SD card, which would increase greatly with larger files...
I have too many new things to add to my collection to justify re-ripping the shelves and shelves of CDs that I've already spent tons of time on. Switching to a lossless format at this point just isn't worth it when I can barely tell the difference. Your ears and needs may vary, of course.