More than a decade ago, almost everyone had an MP3 player, which was as big as a matchbox and quite compact to carry around. Most of them do not support lossless formats such as FLAC, but they carry many young memories.
nowadays, the MP3 player industry is completely closed, and many smart phones have embedded HiFi chips, which really doesn't give MP3 players a chance to turn over. MP3 format began to rise in the 199s, and had a revolutionary impact on the way of music consumption, and now it has finally completed its historical mission.
Recently, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, a German research institution that invented this format, announced that it had terminated the license of some MP3-related patents, in other words, they didn't want this format to continue, because there were other better ways to store music in 217.