Individuals use Google to look up music all of the time. The most popular place for the world to listen to music is thru YouTube, which didn’t really surprise me. What did shock me is that earlier than people look for Spotify, Apple Music, or anyplace else, they look for an MP3 file. Two things shock me. First, individuals still listen to MP3 files. Second, MP3 files are bigger at present than I had ever imagined.  
  
Why MP3 Files Should Not Be Fashionable  
I’m an audiophile. I have an audio interface plugged into my laptop that feeds lossless sound via a gold plated cable into my open back Sennheiser headphones. All you want to take away from that sentence is that I care about sound. Right here’s the fundamental reason why you must too.  
  
Nearly each listens to music. I knot everyone will just sit and listen to music to take it in like me, but music keeps us company in the automotive, while exercising, while working from home, and while getting ready for the day. Music is a part of our interests and for many people, their culture. While listening to music, doesn’t have to be expensive, it shouldn’t be poor quality if it doesn’t need to be. But, folks aren’t just given poor quality. Individuals are searching for it.  
  
As soon as a music has been recorded, it may be exported as an audio file in a number of formats. Regardless of their variety, we will group all of them as either lossless or compressed. MP3 files are compressed audio. Essentially, this signifies that the sound quality is sacrificed as a way to reduce the dimensions of the file. This made sense in the early 2000’s when memory was costly, but one can grab 128 GB of memory on Amazon for 20 bucks now.  
  
As memory isn’t a problem any more, there’s no need for the MP3 file. It isn’t more costly to release music in a higher quality format. I promise you that the musicians don’t prefer that you simply listen in MP3. Plus, while you could be used to MP3 at this point, you're doing a disservice to yourself by choosing poor quality audio while you don’t want to.  
  
Yet, so many of you do choose MP3 nevertheless. While you could be like me before having looked into this and think that nobody makes use of MP3 files any more, allow me to elucidate to you the way large the MP3 industry still is.  
  
The MP3 Business Is A Massive Problem  
I’m just going to leap proper into it because the facts speak loud sufficient for themselves. MP3 searches are the 14th most common kind of search on Google. In March of 2021, MP3 searches have been bigger than Google Translate, Netflix, and Coronavirus searches. Netflix has over 200 million users. The coronavirus has taken millions of lives. But earlier than people sit back to observe some TV or read up on the pandemic they're living by means of, they really feel the need to download some crappy music files.  
  
Should you search something like mp3 music for example, you’ll come across a page of almost an identical links. It doesn’t bring you to Soundcloud or Pandora. Instead, each of the websites are focused around allowing the consumer to download free MP3 files of the music of their choice. When Spotify came to the stage in 2011, the music industry looked at it as a way to fight piracy. As it turns out, piracy is alive and well.  
  
MP3 download websites make money by pushing ads to customers who download music, usually by ripping the audio from YouTube links. While Spotify’s pay of $.003 to $.005 per stream isn’t making small artists rich, it no less than leaves them with something. MP3 downloads do not.