So the answer, as always, is ban useless, power-sucking, unreliable, copyright-infringing AI.

Why do I feel that this will never happen? That we will continue to use this horrible technology to the end of our days with people constantly making excuses for its existence? Ugh.

Sounds fine at good bitrates, universally supported, small, efficient, everywhere.

Yeah, MP3 is just fine. Found zero reason to use any other format. And of course, while the rest of the world streams everything I’ll be happily using my massive MP3 library I can fit on a tiny little storage device and take everywhere I go without the need for the interbutts and big brother keeping tabs of what I listen to.