• comrade19@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Are jpg’s still used today for most things? Or did they quietly die like mp3 did

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      9 months ago

      It is, but it probably shouldn’t be any more. WebP has good support everywhere now and is slightly better than JPEG and PNG combined. (Better lossy compression than JPEG, plus transparency support, and better lossless compression than PNG). But even WebP is considered lame these days compared to the new crop.

      E.g., JXL (JPEG XL) is much better WebP and is supported by everyone except Google (which is ironic since Google helped create it). Google seems to want AVIF to be the winner for the new image format, but not many others do.

      Anyway, until the Google JXL AVIF hissy fit is dealt with, at least we’ve still got WebP. It’s not super great, but it’s at least better than JPEG and PNG. A lot of web developers are stuck in their old JPEG PNG mindset and are being slow to adapt, so JPEG is still hanging around.

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          9 months ago

          At one point i reripped my entire CD collection to lossless only to find out my infotainment system in my truck does not read anything but mp3.

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            9 months ago

            I found out a long time ago that I can’t hear the difference between compression levels starting at 192kbps. So there really isn’t any use for lossless for me.

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            8 months ago

            Um excuse me m8 could you please find me three peer reviewed journals that prove to me that mp3 is still supported

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              8 months ago

              You’re making the claim that mp3 is unsupported while I listen to mp3s on my smartphone, my linux laptop and my MS laptop without issues, my friend.

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                8 months ago

                Oh unsupported to me just means it doesnt recieve updates or fixes. Apparently aac kindve superseeded it

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      9 months ago

      Somewhat. I’ll often share a JPG over a PNG if the filesize is massive as the compression isn’t too bad these days.

      Although everything is moving over to WebP I think, but it’s not as widespread yet.