Invention of MP3

Yes, MP3..really very important, old, happy invention. And the reason I didn't pick iPod is because it was created only on October 23, 2001 by the Apple Computers.

Moving on, about MP3, the German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft developed MP3 technology. The inventors named on the MP3 patent are Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz, Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst Erberlein. In 1987, the Fraunhofer Institute Integrierte Schaltungen Research Center (part of Fraunhofer Gesellshaft) began researching high quality, low bit-rate audio coding, a project named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)

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 sound of loss 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.

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 Expert 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.

Now for me, without any portable music devices, I wouldn't go anywhere. I just need music in the air around me where ever I go. And without music, the world for me would be black and white...seriously. I hope that you are grateful for music existence, like I am. If you don't have an iPod or anything like MP3, buy one. Broke? Pray you'll get one from your friends or family as a present or any way. Start listening to music, people. And just hope it'll inspire you and bring you to the better, colorful side of life.