MP3 format shrinking

Written by tinfoil on Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:55

After bringing the light to digital music, the MP3 file format is slowly slipping away as more people are deleting their MP3s faster then they are acquiring them. The two formats that are growing in popularity are, you guessed it, AAC (iTune's file format) and WMA (Microsoft's file format)..

In the past year the MP3 digital music format slipped from about 82 percent to 72 percent of digital music collections. NDP MusicWatch Digital is the project that surveys hard drives and provides this information. They have stated that Microsoft's and Apple's proprietary file formats have gained about five percent hard-drive share.

NDP has also stated that it may not be that MP3 is losing its popularity but people are finding them to be disposable. Another possible trend that NDP pointed out that would lead to the change with the MP3 format is a shift from file trading to people ripping their collections of CDs into the default format of whatever program they may be using such as iTunes or Windows Media Player.

Source: Dsounds - Digital Music News

Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites