its not neccesarily getting out of date yet, but there are many new file formats coming out such as ogg, aac, aacplus, and many others which far surpass mp3 in terms of a bitrate/size/quality ratio. where mp3 requires a minimum of 128kbps to sound cd quality, ogg can make it at 40kbps, aac around 40/48, and aacplus easily at 24 (which is a standard bitrate for dialup shoutcast streams. so those of you dialup users can easily benefit from this).
anywho, im not mad, just a bit annoyed is all. would have been less of a hassle if my favorite free file hosting site was still up.