I have a folder of MP3s, some of which date back to 1999, just a few years after the format was popularised. Most of them have utterly terrible names (think RIDEONAM.MP3). I think at this point they might even survive the heat death of the universe. And they’ll still be terribly-organised.

    • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Maybe you’re right, I don’t get it. Because from where I’m sitting, ears don’t have anything to do with it, any loss in quality already happened when the music was encoded as an mp3. You can’t magically restore the missing bits by transcoding it to a different format, even if that format is lossless, because the loss already happened.