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'MP3' Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
Sachin Garg writes "The Data Compression News Blog
reports that on July 14th 2005, the name "MP3" celebrates its tenth anniversary.
On this day back in 1995, the researchers at
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated
Circuits IIS decided to use ".mp3" as the file name extension for their new
audio coding technology. Development on this technology started in 1987, in 1992
it was considered far ahead of its times, then MP3 became the generally accepted
acronym for the ISO standard IS 11172-3 "MPEG Audio Layer 3" and no other coding
method so far (2005) could uncrown MP3 as the popular standard for digital music on the
computer and on the Internet."
... a record executive weeps.
I thought based on its compression ratio this would just be the 1st anniversary for mp3. Granted some things in those 10 years are lost, but we can't remember everything can we?
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Oh fantastic! I'd forgot about that one!
;-)
I remember running it on my overclocked 486, half sample rate and mono to get it to play - and only just. It took up most of the CPU and to play the MP3 without skipping I'd have to pause it at the start and let it buffer up a bit.
8.3 filenames, no ID3 or streaming. Good days
When I was eighteen,
I downloaded a very good CD,
A very good CD that took the whole night to grab,
We found it on IRC
My handle was brian_mcgee
We burned it at 2 times for free
When I was eighteen...
With apologies to Homer, 1995 seems so long ago now...
crazy dynamite monkey
Apple's making music safe for people by providing DRM. Since it looks like we have to have DRM, it just seems like Apple is the company to do it. With Apple, you get the new Industry Standard for music and access to millions of songs at iTunes. It's time for MP3 and music piracy to die.
But this is Slashdot. All we want to know is if it supports OGG vorbis.
why didn't they just call it IS 11172-3? It just rolls off the tounge doesn't it? Then we could be all saying: "So how many IS 11172-3's do you have on your ipod?" That would be much easier.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -Hunter S. Thompson
About 7 years ago, I ripped all my CD's to MP3, amazed at how much precious HDD space I could save while accessing all my music via the same source! Now, here I am, in the hard disk gigacheap days, stuck with these lossy-format buggers while the new kids on the block rip to their slightly larger lossless formats. You lucky, spoiled bastards.
That sounds familiar, and I also remember spanning an mp3 across 2 floppies and wondering who in their right mind would ever do something as nutty as put a CD track on 2 floppies. Little was I to know...
For the record the track was 'Made of Stone' by the Stone Roses - still a classic!
Ha! My MP5 was made in 1985, that makes it TWENTY years old, and it *still* likes to rock 'n roll!
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
I mean, MP3 is great and all... but when will it support ogg-vobis?
UTF-8: There and Back Again
Who cares about the 10th anniversary of a mediocre file format; just think: somewhere out there is a person who wakes up each morning and thinks to himself, "I wonder what news I'll find on the Data Compression News Blog today?"
Guess I'm not as much of a geek as I thought...