[rwmj]

On the basis of "can it play in my car", MP3 is the only winner. My car's player has one of those baseline decoding chips that can only do MP3.

[LinAGKar]

That's true, MP3 is by far the most widely supported lossy audio format (except presumably MP1/MP2, since MP3 decoders have to support them), so it will live on for a long time, although Opus is the best one nowadays. Just like with PNG and JPEG for images, which will live on for a long time even though we have WebP, AVIF and JPEG XL. And AVC will probably live on for a long time even though we have HEVC, VP9 and AV1.

[thaumasiotes]

I mean, what I want is for the car to have an audio input that I plug a cable into. There's no reason for the car to be decoding audio at all.

[rwmj]

"Now you have two problems." Specifically the steering wheel controls won't work and I'd have to deal with charging the second device.

[mechanical_bear]

My controls work even when I use the aux cable.

[herbst]

Same here. And it doesn't even do that very well. Imagine spending 15k or more on a brand new car in 2021 just to realize that the sound tech is borrowed from a $5 MP3 player from the early 2000s.

[rwmj]

Almost exactly the same situation as me. The worst part of it is it doesn't sort the directory entries! It displays them in the same order they are written to the directory (ie. usually random). Luckily there is https://fatsort.sourceforge.io/

[dleslie]

This is why I prefer cars where the stereo is replaceable.