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How MP3 Was Born

Posted by kdawson on from the race-to-encode dept.

Actual Reality points us to an interview in BusinessWeek.com with the man most often cited as the inventor of the MP3 format — though Karlheinz Brandenburg credits many for the development, including in particular Suzanne Vega.

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  1. I perfer the version by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    where MP2 was recording in studio, gets wasted and gets it on with Suzanne Vega across the mixing deck leading to a bouncing bundle of MP3. It's much more rock and roll.

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  2. There. Fixed that. by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    Researchers under his supervision are working on technology that would, for example, analyze a user's tastes based on music he or she has already downloaded, search the Internet for other tunes in the same genre, and automatically assemble a playlist^W^W^W send cease and desist letters.
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  3. Picture of this guy by FredDC · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet a lot of record company executives have a picture of this guy hanging in their office! On top of a darts board...

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  4. Re:if wasn't this format, it would have been anoth by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also with the way p2p mp3s are, if flac became popular, people would just transcode their 128kbps mp3s to flac.
    Coool. That would recover the lost quality, then?
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