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In some interesting news, MP3 licensing is now no longer really a thing. The company that owns the licensing pretty much cut it off recently. AAC is more or less the format of choice if people want to stick with the MPEG standards these days. OGG vorbis can out-do both.

CD players aren't even being installed in a lot of computers anymore. It's a shame, but hey, i can't remember the last time i actually bought one either.

oddly enough Vinyl popularity is on the rise a bit, but honestly I think the future is in 3D crystal based solid state storage.
Example:


that one disc can store 360 Terabytes for several billion years without degradation supposedly.

Also Holographic Versatile Discs are being researched and mini Disc sized HVDs could hold entire music collections given the normal ones have storage capacities in the Terabyte range, at least until crystal Discs come into common use.

until then... can you imagine storing Discographies on mini Blu-rays? lol