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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

Opus is far better, but with MP3's there's been plenty of hardware players only working with that format. Also Opus is new, before it was Vorbis which was kinda as good as MP3 but far less popular.

And yes, MP3 is very "good enough", like JPEG.