30 years of the MP3: The story of a breakthrough that changed music

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In the mid-1990s, the walkmans still dominated the world and emerged as one of the best alternatives for listening to music. And suddenly, the mp3 broke the market. The audio compression format was launched exactly 30 years ago, on July 14, 1995. And it allowed consumers to get a digital playback option, much simpler than their predecessors. The mp3 has an origin full of complexities. And even the name by which it was popularized is not the offi…

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“In the mid-1990s, our goal was to make MP3 playable on small handheld devices,” recalls Bernhard Grill, one of the core team members behind the development of MP3, which stands for MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3. The .mp3 extension was assigned to compressed music files 30 years ago, on July 14, 1995, by a team of scientists from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. The popularity of the new format was also helped by the growing world …

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Exactly 30 years ago today, a simple email laid the foundation for a digital revolution. On July 14, 1995, the file extension ".mp3" was given its name at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen – and thus changed...Read more: 30 Years of MP3: The Revolution of the Digital Music World You can support us with every purchase you make through Amazon. Your price remains the same, and we receive a small commission. Simply u…

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Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute in Erlang succeeded in breaking through the compression of music data for the Internet. 30 years ago they gave their discovery the name MP3Today the name MP3 stands synonymous for digital audio data. Music streaming or podcasts would not have been possible without the development of the format "MPEG Audio Layer 3", for which on 14 July 1995 a team led by the electrical engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg at the…

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The MP3 format was born from the idea of transmitting music over telephone lines, which originated in the mind of Dieter Seitzer, later the first director of Fraunhofer IIS. It was at a time when classic CD players were being promoted at the expense of cassette players.