Why Do We Even Have MP3 ?

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Get Rid Of It ! It Completely SUCKS As A Format   !  HORRIBLE Sound .................

agreed 

Works great for audio books.

 

And yet we don't seem to mind compressed music on youtube, archive.org, and mixlr, amongst others.

I thought it was because of the small file size, which worked for storing on phones and portable devices, which sounded like crap anyway. But things are changing. 

I still treasure my mp3 collection.  I have 35 thousand songs (357gb) that I listen to daily on random play through my Bose Companion 5 speakers.  My goal is to have everything at 320mbs.  Sounds good enough for my old ears.