That's still the case for some streaming services today, so for example the standard Spotify service streams music in MP3 format because it's good enough for many listeners.īut Spotify also offers lossless audio, as does Apple Music and many other services – and lossless is the format of choice for today's portable audio players too. So for many people – most people – the benefits of MP3 outweighed the downside, which was poorer sound quality. That was important in the early 2000s because our internet connections were slow, mobile internet was hopeless and our devices had limited storage: even the mighty iPod only had 5GB when it launched. The smaller you make the file, the less musical information it contains but the faster you can download it and the less room it takes up on your device. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is called "lossy compression", because it involves reducing the amount of musical information in the file.
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