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Now Mp3 Is Dead ?

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Who does not know MP3s? This audio format is very popular from the late 1990s because it offers good audio quality with a file size that is much smaller than the conventional WAV format. But lately rumors sad news. The creator and owner of the MP3 format, Fraunhofer Institure for Integrated Circuits in Germany, has suspended the license program for MP3 audio codecs. "We would like to thank the licensing buyers for their support in making MP3 as the world's defacto audio codec, over the past two decades," the Fraunhofer Institute said in a statement. Termination of this license does not mean the MP3 file on the computer will suddenly stop working. All MP3 files can still be played. The file format is not yet "dead", instead it gets justified to go on.Discontinuing MP3 licensing can be viewed as "good news" because the format is now open without any Fraunhofer patents being licensed. For example, if a user buys MP3 from an online store, the st