Comments on: Mp3 is 10 today !

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:32:57 +0000

Happy birthday, MP3, we all love you, your the best.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:11:37 +0000

The ridiculous fact that ANYONE can own “happy birthday” is what gets me.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:07:52 +0000

Hey… I remember the Fraunhofer Institute inducing me to violate copyrights. Yeah, that’s it, it was that Fraunhofer what made me do it… HELP! I’VE BEEN INDUCED!

Coming soon to an MPEG near you,

DOCTOR FRAUNHOFER VS RIAA MAN !!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:20:06 +0000

i though it’s Warner that owns it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:15:57 +0000

They still own the copyright to “Happy Birthday to you”!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:04:50 +0000

Well i wonder how long it will be before the RIAA decides to sue those guys. After all, if mp3 hadn’t been invented noone would have been able to pirate music.

Please note, this is the kind of reasoning that the RIAA would use, not me personally ;o)

I’m well aware of the probability of some other format being adopted if mp3 hadn’t existed. But still, if i’d worked for those guys about that time i’d start getting worried about now.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:10:37 +0000

“The development of the now-ubiquitous MP3 audio compression scheme can be traced back to 1987, at the Fraunhofer Institut Intergriete Shaltungen in Erlangen, Germany. A project was started to develop a high-quality, high-compression audio codec; this was dubbed EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting. The end result of this product eventually became known as ISO-MPEG Audio Layer 3, A.K.A. MP3.

In January of 1988, the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) was created as a committee within the International Standards Organization (ISO). In 1989, Fraunhofer got a patent for their compression scheme, which was submitted to the ISO in 1992 and included in the MPEG-1 specification, published in 1993. In 1990, Fraunhofer developed the first MP3 player, but by all accounts it was a fairly underwhelming bit of work. The first song compressed into MP3 format was “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega, because of its dynamic range. On the 26th of January, 1995, Fraunhofer applied for a US patent on MP3, which it received on 26 November, 1996.”

I would say July 14 is the birthday of the .mp3 file.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:42:13 +0000

Ima turn 18 in 2 days. =D