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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. Re:if wasn't this format, it would have been anoth by Random+Destruction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its much more likely that people can't tell the difference. Most people think 128kbps mp3 is 'cd quality'. For those of us who know that that's a crock, there's V2 and V0, or even 320cbr. Almost nobody can tell the difference between 320 and flac. So why should people who want to download the latest slammin RnB hit want anything else?

    Also with the way p2p mp3s are, if flac became popular, people would just transcode their 128kbps mp3s to flac.

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  2. Re:More cutting-edge innovation? by dam.capsule.org · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that last.fm use the data from other users to determine what music you might like. In the same way amazon suggestion system uses.

    The guy here seems to work on a system which would analyze the music itself (tempo, melody, ...) to find other matching tunes.

    At least that's how I see it.

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  3. Re:More cutting-edge innovation? by mstra · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, so Pandora, then?

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