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    The MP3 audio format was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany. Key researchers included Karlheinz Brandenburg, who is considered the "father of MP3", and Dieter Seitzer from the University of Erlangen. The MP3 format allows for audio files to be highly compressed with little loss of quality. In the 1990s, MP3 gained widespread popularity with the development of software players and portable devices that could play MP3 files. Fraunhofer began licensing the MP3 patent in 1998.

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    The MP3 audio format was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany. Key researchers included Karlheinz Brandenburg, who is considered the "father of MP3", and Dieter Seitzer from the University of Erlangen. The MP3 format allows for audio files to be highly compressed with little loss of quality. In the 1990s, MP3 gained widespread popularity with the development of software players and portable devices that could play MP3 files. Fraunhofer began licensing the MP3 patent in 1998.

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    The MP3 audio format was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany. Key researchers included Karlheinz Brandenburg, who is considered the "father of MP3", and Dieter Seitzer from the University of Erlangen. The MP3 format allows for audio files to be highly compressed with little loss of quality. In the 1990s, MP3 gained widespread popularity with the development of software players and portable devices that could play MP3 files. Fraunhofer began licensing the MP3 patent in 1998.

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    The MP3 audio format was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany. Key researchers included Karlheinz Brandenburg, who is considered the "father of MP3", and Dieter Seitzer from the University of Erlangen. The MP3 format allows for audio files to be highly compressed with little loss of quality. In the 1990s, MP3 gained widespread popularity with the development of software players and portable devices that could play MP3 files. Fraunhofer began licensing the MP3 patent in 1998.

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    The History of MP3

    Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and MP3


    The German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft developed MP3 technology and now
    licenses the patent rights to the audio compression technology - United States Patent
    5,579,430 for a "digital encoding process". The inventors named on the MP3 patent are
    Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst
    Eberlein.

    In 1987, the prestigious Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen research center (part
    of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft) began researching high quality, low bit-rate audio coding, a
    project named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB).

    Dieter Seitzer and Karlheinz Brandenburg

    Two names are mentioned most frequently in connection with the development of MP3.
    The Fraunhofer Institut was helped with their audio coding by Dieter Seitzer, a professor
    at the University of Erlangen.
    Dieter Seitzer had been working on the quality transfer of music over a standard phone
    line. The Fraunhofer research was led by Karlheinz Brandenburg often called the "father
    of MP3". Karlheinz Brandenburg was a specialist in mathematics and electronics and had
    been researching methods of compressing music since 1977. In an interview with Intel,
    Karlheinz Brandenburg described how MP3 took several years to fully develop and
    almost failed. Brandenburg stated "In 1991, the project almost died. During modification
    tests, the encoding simply did not want to work properly. Two days before submission of
    the first version of the MP3 codec, we found the compiler error."

    What is MP3

    MP3 stands for MPEG Audio Layer III and it is a standard for audio compression that
    makes any music file smaller with little or no loss of sound quality. MP3 is part of
    MPEG, an acronym for Motion Pictures Expert Group, a family of standards for
    displaying video and audio using lossy compression. Standards set by the Industry
    Standards Organization or ISO, beginning in 1992 with the MPEG-1 standard. MPEG-1
    is a video compression standard with low bandwidth. The high bandwidth audio and
    video compression standard of MPEG-2 followed and was good enough to use with DVD
    technology. MPEG Layer III or MP3 involves only audio compression.

    Timeline - History of MP3

    • 1987 - The Fraunhofer Institut in Germany began research code-named EUREKA


    project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB).
    • January 1988 - Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG was established as a
    subcommittee of the International Standards Organization/International
    Electrotechnical Commission or ISO/IEC.
    • April 1989 - Fraunhofer received a German patent for MP3.
    • 1992 - Fraunhofer's and Dieter Seitzer’s audio coding algorithm was integrated
    into MPEG-1.
    • 1993 - MPEG-1 standard published.
    • 1994 - MPEG-2 developed and published a year later.
    • November 26, 1996 - United States patent issued for MP3.
    • September 1998 - Fraunhofer started to enforce their patent rights. All developers
    of MP3 encoders or rippers and decoders/players now have to pay a licensing fee
    to Fraunhofer.
    • February 1999 - A record company called SubPop is the first to distribute music
    tracks in the MP3 format.
    • 1999 - Portable MP3 players appear.

    What Can MP3 Do

    Fraunhofer Gesellschaft has this to say about MP3:"Without Data reduction, digital audio
    signals typically consist of 16 bit samples recorded at a sampling rate more than twice the
    actual audio bandwidth (e.g. 44.1 kHz for Compact Discs). So you end up with more than
    1.400 Mbit to represent just one second of stereo music in CD quality. By using MPEG
    audio coding, you may shrink down the original sound data from a CD by a factor of 12,
    without losing sound quality."

    MP3 Players

    In the early 1990s, Frauenhofer developed the first, however, unsuccessful MP3 player.
    In 1997, developer Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products invented the
    AMP MP3 Playback Engine, the first successful MP3 player. Two university students,
    Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev ported AMP to Windows and created Winamp. In
    1998, Winamp became a free MP3 music player boosting the success of MP3. No
    licensing fees are required to use an MP3 player.

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