I had no idea mp3 music came about such a long time ago. What really intrigues me, however, is the timeline of mp3 to current day. If you do the math correctly, mp3 format came out almost 30 years ago which begs the question: if technology is so progressive then why are we still using this format nearly 28 years later? I found my answer in a fairly basic concept; while mp3 is dated it is still more streamlined and takes less space than even some of the newer formats such as mp4 which includes video in addition to audio capabilities. While being able to download music videos in mp4 is nice to have, when it comes down to it, you download music to listen to it not watch a video with the music. So when people are given the choice between more free space but no video, even 28 years later, people still want a less dense music file.
The MP3 like many other inventions was a gateway into future technologies. They allowed a new way to be “on the go” and have music right in the palm of your hands. The MP3 was not only a leading developer for music but for technology as well, not long after its development, high-performance computers were launched.
The MP3 allowed for many other advanced audio formats and files to be developed. The portable MP3 players were so influential that it started a trend in similar devices to be made. Other companies saw how profitable they were and how their popularity heavily increased. This invention was highly revolutionary and is still used frequently to this day.
The invention of MP3 was a brilliant and life-changing invention for many people globally. It has helped so many people with their daily activities and even create memories with friends and family. It is insane to think how long MP3 has been around because it almost seems as if it is a modern thing. It has progressed so much over the years. It definitely has been one of the greatest inventions to this day because people are continually using it and incorporating it into their inventions. Here is more information on MP3 technology.
MP3 is an essential component to the history of recorded music, but it also makes pirating music very easy, which is related to the previous course reading. There are so many file-conversion websites that take advantage of this digital audio coding format. The good of MP3 absolutely outweighs the bad and I’m curious what the next big thing in digitally recorded music will be!
Jacob Curtis
The MP3 player was a truly marvelous device for people who looked to listen to music everywhere they went. This innovation helped spark the rise of similar technological devices, thereby highlighting its importance. Though this device is obsolete, it still helped pave the way for the expansion of the Internet, as well as the decreasing cost of storage space.
Below is an article comparing CDs and MP3 players: https://www.discwizards.com/articles/CD-Versus-MP3.htm
Amanda Horton
The MP3 was a truly amazing invention for its time and was a gateway for new technologies in the music industry. The era of the portabl;e MP3 began in 1998, increasing in popularity while other companies released their own versions. Released at just the right time in history, all the MP3 player had to do was convince consumer of its use. Here is a link that provides more information on the history of the MP3 player.
The idea of MP3 files did have a rough start. Yet the format is so widely used today especially with massive streaming services that allow you to download the mp3 for a monthly subscription fee. At the perfect time of development of the MP3, storage prices of hard drive decrease as the space increased.
Article: https://www.engadget.com/2015/06/26/mp3-digital-music-piracy/S
I had no idea mp3 had its roots in the 1980s. I most associate it with the early 2000s, so to hear it actually came to light in 1992 was fascinating to me. It seems like the Internet helped mp3 begin to spread. It especially helped when Napster came around and people were able to share digital files in ways they hadn’t been able to before. It makes sense that it took off around this time due to these inventions.
Courtney Valsamakis
The mp3 was the start and influence of many present day music technologies. I think I only ever owned one Mp3 player it was a small black device, I don’t remember the brand. It was my first form of discovering a listening to music now I use my phone for music which has come a long way since the mp3 player. Check out the influence of the mp3 in the link provided: http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
Torrey Prukop
It’s kinda crazy how long MP3 has been around and how many people are actually still using it today. Other music platforms from the mid to late nineteen hundreds didn’t really seem to last as long as MP3 has. I feel like MP3 evolved as technological advances did. Being able to download music onto an MP3 also helped it’s popularity a bunch. Included is an article about the best MP3’s of this day in age and the trend they have set. https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/best-music-players/
Mp3 have revolutionized the way we listen to music, and impacts how we listen to music today. These music players helped to show different ways music was bought and listened too. They also helped to push streaming platforms into the light.
Dear Creator of the Mp3,
YOU ARE AMAZING. I remember being young and putting on 3 of my christmas list that i wanted the mp3 players and each year there was an updated version of this device. My aunt would put some cord in it and hook it into her samsung computer and boom id have music, took a while but i was the coolest kid on the street. The tramendous growth and evolution that this device has had from the late 90’s even until now ( because some people still use them just not as often) i am actually astounded to know how my very first portable music player device came about. For sure a worth to read.
Below is an article that i read recently that shows a tragic disapperance of an mp3 player https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/1/20677636/sony-walkman-anniversary-tps-l2-cassette-music-player-portable-mp3-evolution
Rafael Tovar
With the development of the MP3 player, the accessibility of music increased immensely. Now, anyone could listen to their favorite songs on the go, wherever, whenever. With this development, the increase in the amount of platforms that provide music increased. The piracy of music from sites like napster became commonplace. It is an understatement to say the MP3 changed the music industry.
The development of the MP3 player was created with the idea of sending music signals over telephone connections. The MP3 player gained popularity because of the decreasing cost for storage space and the growth of the internet, leading to dozens of companies wanting to create something similar. The creation of the MP3 player provided listeners the accessibility to listen to music anywhere at anytime. The article below explains how the MP3 player influenced the world. https://blog.tlcsolutions.ca/throwback-thursday-the-mp3-player
Ashley Whitmire
The creation of the mp3 player came to be from the original idea of sending musical signals over telephone connections. And then not much after the development of the mp3 the internet exploded as storage space cost decreased. mp3 files are very useful even though I feel like we take them for granted in the high tech world we live in. But for more examples of just how important the mp3 is in our daily lives read this article https://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/155962/technology/the_importance_of_mp3_player_during_your_day_and_life.html
Charles Cordts
When the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits announced in May 2017 that they would terminate their license for an industry-standard audio file format they had developed nearly 30 years before, the life of the MP3 was over. While poster Samuel Sanchez does claim (with his reference source at Forbes) that the format is still used in many music file transactions after the announcement, these cases are almost entirely for sharing to and from older computers and outdated content platforms. We sit in the grace period for the final days of the MP3, as old machines are replaced and media websites updated to fit with new standards of audio compression and integration with video format (MP4). MP3 may still be breathing, but only on life-support.
Going all the way back to 1894 a physicist found that a tone could be rendered inaudible to the human ear by layering it with another tone with a lower frequency. This limitation to human hearing is called auditory masking and it’s what the mp3 lossy audio compression algorithm takes advantage of. After 1894 it took another 60-70 years before people became interested enough in this phenomenon to try and exploit it. The history is fascinating despite me not understanding all the code terms and whatnot.
For most people, when you think of an mp3 file, not much comes to mind, it is just a file that plays music on your iPod. What most people don’t know is that the creation of the humble mp3 file is responsible for the creation of mp3 players, iTunes, Youtube, Napster, Windows Media Player, and the death of the CD. just to name a few. The mp3 is one of the most simple, complex inventions to come out if the 21st century.
The Mp3 made listening to music digitally way easier. Once I got an Mp3 thats when I started listening to way more music. I literally had like 3-4 different iPod generations because I loved it so much. There was even different online services that had songs that could be downloaded in seconds. Mp3 honestly changed the way to distribute musical recordings forever in my eyes.
Although the MP3 seems like a more 90s or 2000s invention, the fact that the foundation for the technology began in the late 1970s is pretty incredible! The LC-ATC codec (low complexity adaptive transform coding) was created in 1987 before shifting through many other prototypes and names before finally landing on “mp3” in 1995. Thankfully, the mp3 could not have been created at a better time due to the technological advancements of high-performance computers and the vast expansion of the internet. The following link takes you to an article from 2017 that claims that mp3 is dead and also gives a brief summary of the history of mp3.
When the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits announced in May 2017 that they would terminate their license for an industry-standard audio file format they had developed nearly 30 years before, the life of the MP3 was over. While poster Samuel Sanchez does claim (with his reference source at Forbes) that the format is still used in many music file transactions after the announcement, these cases are almost entirely for sharing to and from older computers and outdated content platforms. We sit in the grace period for the final days of the MP3, as old machines are replaced and media websites updated to fit with new standards of audio compression and integration with video format (MP4). MP3 may still be breathing, but only on life-support.
It was crazy to read that the format for MP3 started back in the 70s; I always thought of it as an early 2000s device. it was also interesting to see that the MP3 player was created at the right time, when it came out, the price of storage was decreasing, new computers were coming out, and the Internet was growing, so MP3s immediately gained popularity, and paved the way for other portable players to be developed by other companies. But according to this article I read, MP3s are pretty much dead now, as there are so many other ways to listen to and pirate music now. The MP3 became popular due to its portability and small file size, useful for pirating music, but now, Advanced Audio Coding has taken over, and there are plenty of streaming services on devices like smartphones that have replaced the MP3 player.
The astounding aspect would be the fact that the MP3 player was released in the 1980s and yet most people believe that it is a modern-day invention (early 2000s). The MP3 is to credit for opening the doors of new and better technologies that we use today and many of us forget our ‘roots’, per se. What I found most interesting about the article is that in order to produce a standardized MPEG, the number of technologies started at fourteen and went down to four, and then the final product, one.
After reading the article, I was surprised by how early the portable MP3 player was introduced. The MP3 player was a revolutionary innovation, which paved the way for the invention of portable devices. With that being said, I was interested in the evolution of all of the portable music devices. Therefore, I found a video that shows the evolution of portable music players. The video shows the evolution of these devices from 1954 to the 21st century. Furthermore, the video also explains the new innovations added to the devices, such as longer battery time, upgrades storages, and other groundbreaking advances.
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Trs-KNNIw
Bringing up a point made in a previous comment, it has been almost 30 years since the conception of the MP3 and yet we still use this as the primary form of listening to music. AS technology becomes more progressive we have yet to break from this outdated form of listening to music. I have a feeling that many genuine listeners of music will side with me on the fact that older forms of music bring out the history formed within these mediums. But, when it comes to MP3, to combat forms of piracy such as torrent files, there must be some way we can develop a new form of file for music, and this is specifically the problem, the key problem with MP3 is piracy, and to end this issue, we must progressively pursue a new form of audio sharing.
I find it incredibly fascinating to read about the history of the MP3 because it isn’t something that most people would look deep into. More than that, it’s very intriguing to me to see how many hands and how many years it took to bring the format to the status that it would become and still is. It reminds me of an earlier chapter in the course (Hi-Fi) that also had a much overlooked history that is better explained than I could possibly do justice, by the article attached.
The MP3 was a device of the future to the people who were new to it back then. It all began around the time of the 1970s, this revolution was filled with technology structuring, adjustments from storage to Internet, and even forming the final extension to the file of MPEG layer 3. The link below is a crash course based off of the high-quality sound of digital technology and the history of MP3 itself.
This article was an interesting read for me as I was unaware that the mp3 was created so recently. I imagined the mp3 was created earlier than stated in the article. Also, I was unaware the first mp3 created was at 28.8 kbps which is terrible quality. I thought that modern mp3, at 128 kbps, sounded awful, but 28.8 kbps is practically indecipherable. Higher bit rates helped the quality of music playback from computers. Nowadays we have full 320 kbps mp3 files that sound very clear.
I never imagined that MP3 originated that far back in time. The reality of MP3 has made a dent in the music industry because it created a minimalistic approach to adhering to music. The development of MP3 opened the doors to other technology advancements like the iPod and video files. It sparked the idea of smaller handsets in technology but also increased piracy rates substantially. MP3 complimented the idea of smaller is better.
It is very interesting how the idea of mp3 technology was invented so long ago. In addition it is mind-blowing how much further it took the music industry and recorded audio tech. Though it wasn’t beneficial to musicians at first due to how easy it was to pirate music it definitely was a necessary evil as time went by. The idea of having recorded data in mid air that was brought by mp3 led to a constant push for bettering this tech. Sooner or later as smartphones rose streaming apps were developed with the same idea but were easier to use and more effective to artists and consumers.
The MP3 is probably the most impactful and also the foundation for this online streaming music era. The format has allowed many to consume music in such an easy way. I remember during the ringtone era of like crank that by Soulja boy and Vans by the pack, MP3’s were so easy to export and transfer to my little MP3 player. I also remember how easy it was at the time to download Limewire and Bearshare and just pirate so many songs and how it was basically just the norm at the time to do so. I think without the technology put into this file format we wouldn’t have things like Spotify and apple music as our current music platforms.
I found it surprising that the building block of the mp3 system that we know was initiated by a university. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg’s research along with the help of Fraunhofer IIS brought about the LC-ATC codec that allows for coding of stereo music. As a student in college, it is sometimes easy to feel like the research we do isn’t benefiting the world, but the researchers at the AudioLab have made a serious impact of the way we listen to music today. The companies are now developing an Enhanced Voice Services, (EVS), allowing for clearer voices and audio quality on mobile phones. The team also contributed to Ultra High Definition TV that we all know and love.
Here’s an article about what the FAU is currently developing: https://www.fau.eu/2015/10/05/news/audiolabs-fraunhofer-iis-and-fau-extend-partnership/
James Porto
I was surprised to learn how long it took for .mp3 to become the standard file format for music. Mainly because I didn’t realize development started in the 80’s. It does make sense though considering how slow and inefficient computers at the time were compared to not just today but the computers of the early 2000’s when .mp3 really took off, which took hours to download a single album. I also didn’t realize that .mp3 was dead, and replaced by Advanced Audio Coding, until reading another student’s post. This is likely due to the change in how we listen to our music. In this instance we moved from downloading to streaming. Hopefully in the future they discover a medium that can digitally replicate analog recordings.
An mp3 is a portable audio device used to play music. It took the music industry and recorded audio tech to the next level. It was a big building block for portable devices that could then be used to stream music as technology advances. More portable music devices came such as smartphones, iPods, etc. The mp3 took the hits early on, so that the other devices could thrive.
This article was very enlightening because I had no clue that .mp3 was in the making since the 1970’s and all that went into the process. It was very interesting to here how people got these companies to combine their efforts to create this type of file system, considering when you think of inventors they tend to be very secretive and don’t like to share information. On the outlook, their cooperation lead to the creation of one of the best compression filing systems ever made, which is still being used today almost 30 years later.
It never occurred to me that the mp3 is so old. I guess I always thought of it as newer technology but it is very interesting to me how much research and work went into it. I never thought that the mp3 was that big of a deal. I’m still a little bit confused on “CODECS” but what really made me interested was the development of the mp3 and how it came together.
Below is a cool video I found to explain the history of the mp3.
I always thought the MP3 was made roughly around the late 90’s, not thought of in the 70’s. I suppose they did make their debut in the late 90’s, so I was not completely wrong. MP3 was one of the first ways I remember listening to music as a kid. Here is an article I found on how a new format called AAC has taken over how we download music in today’s world, and says essentially that MP3 is dead.
The Mp3 is so historical, I remember having one as a little boy….i’ve had plenty actually, From an Mp3 disc player and also about 4 corner store mp3’s and uploaded music on them myself at the age of 7. I use to love music and just thinking of the mp3 and how historical it was back in the day brings back memories. Thinking of how old it is makes me think of how its been improved through the years. From RCA Mp3’s to Apple Ipods, ive had every single one.
It is interesting to see the evolution of audio. The start of a major era of the music industry was the mp3 and it rooted from a university. It started out as individuals wanting to do digital audio broadcasting but it evolved into something that was important and very popular in its time period. It is interesting to see how the conversation of an mp3 started and the connections between the beginning of creating this to what we know now. If you would like to read more about the roots of the mp3 take time to look at the article below which talks about the history of digital audio broadcasting. https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/audio-video/broadcast-audio/digital-radio-audio-broadcasting-dab-tutorial.php
John Fields
It’s crazy how the new desire to create a new audio standard revolutionized the industry for like the fifth time. An urge to have something new and modern in the age of tech conglomerates led to the joining of multiple coding proposals and developed the mp3, a system devised to be able to store tons of more music in a minimized size. This went hand in hand with the advancement of computers and thus a new digital age of music was born.
The invention of the MP3 changed the way we listened to music as it became more portable and changed how we consume music to this day. The MP3 influenced technology as music became more “on the go” and not a media only consumed in the home. Its invention was so revolutionary that today music is no longer only available in physical copies but is also available through streaming.
In my personal opinion, the invention of the MP3 player is a real life example of patience leading to something great. I never knew that the thought of the invention of the MP3 was from as early as the 1970s. I always thought that it was in the process of being invented in the late 90s or early 2000s, but as they always say, you learn something new everyday. Here is an article which gives more information about the history of the MP3, which I found pretty interesting: https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
Amariah Rangel
I always thought mp3 was developed in the late 80s and 90s but I never thought it was developed in the 70s. I can see why mp3 was such a breakthrough. It was compact and did not take up that much storage on a device. It could be taken anywhere on devices such as computers and mp3 players. I had a few mp3 players when I was a child and I would fill that sucker up with tons of songs. Mp3 files were so easy to download and transport which is a reason mp3 became so popular. If you want to purchase an mp3 player, I provided an article that presents mp3 players that are still worth buying today!
Ever since the creation of the MP3 file the music industry has been a roller coaster in so many different ways. At first it was seen as helpful due to how easily transferable these files are. That was until the internet advanced and things started to spiral out of control because of music piracy. This creation made things so easy for others to access music and anything audio related. Whether it be your favorite song, a recording of one of your most love podcasts. You can bet that today it’s In MP3!
Very cool to read about the steps taken to get to the creation of the MP3. You rarely hear about the process, such as the names it was given before MP3 and all of the coding that went into it. The MP3 created a template for future audio files, and was extremely popular in the time it was here.
With the invention of the mp3 coming to life, it brought one of the greatest and biggest life-changing events regarding recording globally. Mp3’s gave endless supplies of a music library to holding sound files and they spread through the houses in every state like a wildfire. Mp3’s really have been around for almost over a decade now, and it has advanced to things like streaming. Music and the way things are shared have changed dramatically over time, I think for the better. But I believe the mp3 has to be easily one of best inventions known to man to this day. Below is an article about how mp3’s changed the way we listen to music.
The mp3 has been around for almost 30 years. The technology to create it was the most advanced at the time and people had never seen it before. The crazy part is that the same technology is still used til this day. Why hasn’t there been any advancements since then? Yes some advancements have been made but nothing as big as the mp3 at the time it was produced. The technology used in the mp3 still plays a major role in todays software and still nothing has been created to fully replace it.
After almost 40 years, the life of the mp3 is coming to an end. To think that mp3 began as a patent concept way back in 1987, developing alongside the cassette tapes and television, is really amazing. The mp3 began as a way to send music signals and sounds over the telephone, and evolved into a way to store and play digital media on devices big and small. The music is first compressed onto a file and then transferred to any device that can store or support it. It’s given us the music we have today, and I believe we wouldn’t be where we are in music development without it.
The making of the mp3 player came to be from the first thought of sending melodic signals over phone wires and connections. Not much long afterward came the creation of the mp3 and the world went crazy as storage space decreased as well as the price for a smaller capacity diminished. Mp3 records are exceptionally helpful despite the fact that I feel like we underestimate them in the cutting edge world we live in. The Mp3 player was pivotal for me to discover new music as a child. How can one forget those days when all you needed for new music was a computer, your mp3 player, and a usb cable. Brings back awesome memories.
The following link is an article the also demonstrates in more detail how mp3 records and mp3 players were so simple to use and jam out which is what made them so popular back in the day.
The rise of the MP3 codec and its development has had an everlasting effect not just on me but for the majority of people. The early stages of the MP3 codec started in 1987 and reached the global standard for transmitting audio on computers. When I was younger I remember getting one of those cheap MP3 players that looked like an iPod, it was one of my first experiences with interacting with music through mp3 files. Fast-forwarding to today the MP3 can be seen in every format we use now to get our music. http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
Arianna Duke
Its is interesting to learn that the mp3 has been around for so long. I was unaware that it was developed so early on. The process of development seemed very tedious but necessary. This type of file is so common today and changed the way music was shared forever.
MP3 are very similar to CDs in the way they encode sound. They covert sound into 1s and 0s. The benefit from MP3 is the space they take up. You can maintain the quality of sound even though the space is reduced by 30 times. So a 30 megabyte CD file is equivalent to a 3 megabyte MP3 file. In addition, the music in the MP3 format is more portable than that of CDS and overs more versatility in terms of what device can be used.
It’s surprising to me how long mp3 has been around. I had no idea. It’s easy to see that the invention of mo3 was the gateway to many other inventions like digital computer software and many other devices discussed in this article.
the mp3 has to be one of the greatest inventions that I personally got to witness for my self. Users were now able to hear music on demand and it definitely had a change on the music industry if im not mistaken it also had an effect on record sales as well.
The MP3 is such a unique and revolutionary item, to this day. Back in the day, it took a lot of coding for MP3’s to download the music online. Not to mention how it inspired a lot of technology to have access to the storage of music.
After reading the article, I was very interested in the way mp3 came about in the real world. I did not realize that storage space was so important for the audio to stream correctly. I also learned that mp3 began a long time ago and started out as simple file exchange, I specific memory I have of mp3 is a program that was named “Limewire:, which let anybody who had the program download a huge library of music to their library without having to pay for anything. People were concerned that this website was was illegal but the creator Mark Gorton argued that he was “within the confines of the law”. I linked an article explaining the history of Limwaire and similar websites that did the same thing.
I remember getting my first MP3 player. It was tiny!! I loved that thing. The thing I did not realize, especially at that time was that it developed so long ago. I thought when I got my player it was brand new and just developed. By compacting these large files into these smaller more manageable files was the new revolution. Now as technology develops, the MP3 is no longer top dog.
In 1989, the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG), an international standardization organization, was planning to introduce an audio standard, and OCF was put forward. MPEG received a total of 14 audio coding proposals, and the participants were encouraged to combine their contributions.
Kamryn Sabatelli
I had an MP3 player when I was little. I loved it so much. What I did not know was that they came out in the late 90s. I thought they had just came out when i was little, in the early 2000s. Then to see right after MP3s were launched, high performance computers came out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3_player
Parker Barsalou
Mp3 was a game changer in the music industry. I had no clue it came out so early, I was thinking it started somewhere in the 2000s but I was wrong. Ever since this piece of technology came out we have been using it since in different ways and truly deserves its credit in this world.
I honestly thought the MP3 was a newer piece of technology due to Apple releasing theirs in 2001. I feel like since Apple is so trendy to buy, many cool or revolutionary pieces of tech are overlooked until they do it, which is usually a while later. It’s pretty smart of them to hop on others bandwagon by creating the same underrated product, but making it look nicer and cooler to consumers.
Kamila
Classic MP3 player. This tech was revolutionary when I was in the 5th grade and was shockingly one of my favorite forms of tech. Even though I never own the Apple Touch, I did have my very own b grade version that still allowed me to download my favorite musics inexpensively. The MP3 advanced the idea of various songs and artist on one device. One could also say that the MP3 contributed to the creation of many music platforms such as Apple Music, Spodify, Pandora, and even YouTube, all platforms where various artists and styles of music are in one location.
Kamila Richards
The MP3 was such a revolutionary piece of tech when it was released by apple as the Touch. It allowed for all your favorite songs and artist to be accessible on one device. This improved the the Casset or CD player. The MP3 player also paved the way for many music platforms such as Pandora, Spodify, and Apple Music.
If you would like to read more on the benefits of the MP3 player please check out the link below:
Tech would make holding music within your pockets a possibility. MP3s while quality reducing would allow the accessibility and with the dawning of the iPod by Apple and eventually the iPhone Mp3s would be the next standard for consuming music. It’s during this time in history that consumers are benefitting the most in fact stealing music via pirating and holding onto it was easier than ever. Apple didn’t encourage pirating music especially with iTunes but it sure as hell didn’t stop it. Itunes was designed for importing music from external sources!
The MP3 player was something that changed how we were able to playback music and video files. This led to a great leap in technology and how we could transfer data. MP3 stands for Layer-3 which was the most efficient and complicated of the three codes that were available. It allowed music projects to be saved on computers and allowed data to be shared and transmitted across computers. 1995 was the year that mp3 got credited with its name after an poll. In 1998 we can see mp3 taking off after its increased popularity, and decrease of storage place. Not too far after mp3 was launched high power computers were hitting the market, and storage mediums were getting cheaper and the internet started to grow. The world had now understood that mp3 was a great way to format music to be easily shared across multiple devices. You can put a whole library of music onto a flash drive if you convert the music to mp3. This led to a high demand of portable music and mp3 delivered just that. Music could now be on your phone, laptop, car and any device that was capable of mp3 playback.
Lesley Ibarra
Three coding techniques were established, one was the mp3, a code based on ASPEC. The third layer, or mp3, was the most efficient out of all them. It was applied in to commercial applications and became a revolutionary piece of technology. With technologies such as the iPod and computers, mp3 files were wildly used. People could now travel with music at their finger tips. It truly was an incredible discovery.
The mp3 changed the way music was stored and sold. MP3 also increased music piracy through websites like Napster. However, mp3 also increased the overall spread of music through services like iTunes.
When ever I hear “MP3” I always get a rush of nostalgia. I loved my mp3 player when I was a kid and would carry it everywhere I went. I loved having so many of my favorite songs on it and being able to listen to them where ever I went. The mp3 file was revolutionary for the digital audio world and it’s honestly surprising to me how early it came out as I thought it came out in the 2000s.
The mp3 is one of the innovations in the music world that truly revolutionized music as we know it. I think its safe to say that most of grew up with an mp3 player. I am surprised that once again this technology was introduced so long ago. Similar to the walkman, mobile music is always praised. Apple’s “Ipod” was a game changer and . one of the reasons for their great success. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/10/23Apple-Presents-iPod/
Jose Ramos
mp3 is an amazing concept. It is fascinating to know someone created a file format that made audio files much more compressed than at the time was thought possible. What this article helped me understand was how it came to be, but I also wanted to know exactly what mp3 does. I use a converter to get audio clips from YouTube videos, using a website called YouTubetoMP3. The article here describes the process mp3 uses to create the files it does: https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question118.htm
I feel like the impact of the MP3 was created from the use of cassette tapes. The idea of using music digitally helped give rise to the use and creation of the MP3. From there it made obtaining music faster and easier. Over the years the MP3 evolved and now we can listen to music from our phones.
Moussa Drame
It’s crazy to see that with how fast the technology goes, but we are still using the Mp3 which his story “began at the end of the 1970s with the idea of sending music signals over telephone connections”. The fact that we are still using it shows how great this inventions was. It would have been a little more difficult for us to listen to music is the Mp3 wasn’t invented because its small size. http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
Carlos X Garcia
The MP3 music format is an iconic format, still being used today and its hard to imagine it came from the 80s. being such an old format shows it’s effectiveness as one of the most widely used digital formats.
The MP3 file format made it so that large files could be compressed and take up less storage and memory. This made downloading many files possible and can be credited with making the music industry millions via digital sales. Without the development of the MP3 file i doubt Apple would have ever released the iPod, and where would they be now? However like many things there is a downside, the mp3 also gave rise to an easier way of conducting music piracy.
I had no idea mp3 music came about such a long time ago. What really intrigues me, however, is the timeline of mp3 to current day. If you do the math correctly, mp3 format came out almost 30 years ago which begs the question: if technology is so progressive then why are we still using this format nearly 28 years later? I found my answer in a fairly basic concept; while mp3 is dated it is still more streamlined and takes less space than even some of the newer formats such as mp4 which includes video in addition to audio capabilities. While being able to download music videos in mp4 is nice to have, when it comes down to it, you download music to listen to it not watch a video with the music. So when people are given the choice between more free space but no video, even 28 years later, people still want a less dense music file.
Here is an article further supporting my claims on why mp3 is still an unforgotten technology:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2017/05/22/mp3-death/#3d7d2af1b765
The MP3 like many other inventions was a gateway into future technologies. They allowed a new way to be “on the go” and have music right in the palm of your hands. The MP3 was not only a leading developer for music but for technology as well, not long after its development, high-performance computers were launched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A-kA-e9J0k
The MP3 allowed for many other advanced audio formats and files to be developed. The portable MP3 players were so influential that it started a trend in similar devices to be made. Other companies saw how profitable they were and how their popularity heavily increased. This invention was highly revolutionary and is still used frequently to this day.
If you’re interested in learning some fun facts about the MP3, here you go! https://www.techwalla.com/articles/10-interesting-facts-on-the-mp3-player
The invention of MP3 was a brilliant and life-changing invention for many people globally. It has helped so many people with their daily activities and even create memories with friends and family. It is insane to think how long MP3 has been around because it almost seems as if it is a modern thing. It has progressed so much over the years. It definitely has been one of the greatest inventions to this day because people are continually using it and incorporating it into their inventions. Here is more information on MP3 technology.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
MP3 is an essential component to the history of recorded music, but it also makes pirating music very easy, which is related to the previous course reading. There are so many file-conversion websites that take advantage of this digital audio coding format. The good of MP3 absolutely outweighs the bad and I’m curious what the next big thing in digitally recorded music will be!
The MP3 player was a truly marvelous device for people who looked to listen to music everywhere they went. This innovation helped spark the rise of similar technological devices, thereby highlighting its importance. Though this device is obsolete, it still helped pave the way for the expansion of the Internet, as well as the decreasing cost of storage space.
Below is an article comparing CDs and MP3 players:
https://www.discwizards.com/articles/CD-Versus-MP3.htm
The MP3 was a truly amazing invention for its time and was a gateway for new technologies in the music industry. The era of the portabl;e MP3 began in 1998, increasing in popularity while other companies released their own versions. Released at just the right time in history, all the MP3 player had to do was convince consumer of its use. Here is a link that provides more information on the history of the MP3 player.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
The idea of MP3 files did have a rough start. Yet the format is so widely used today especially with massive streaming services that allow you to download the mp3 for a monthly subscription fee. At the perfect time of development of the MP3, storage prices of hard drive decrease as the space increased.
Article:
https://www.engadget.com/2015/06/26/mp3-digital-music-piracy/S
I had no idea mp3 had its roots in the 1980s. I most associate it with the early 2000s, so to hear it actually came to light in 1992 was fascinating to me. It seems like the Internet helped mp3 begin to spread. It especially helped when Napster came around and people were able to share digital files in ways they hadn’t been able to before. It makes sense that it took off around this time due to these inventions.
The mp3 was the start and influence of many present day music technologies. I think I only ever owned one Mp3 player it was a small black device, I don’t remember the brand. It was my first form of discovering a listening to music now I use my phone for music which has come a long way since the mp3 player. Check out the influence of the mp3 in the link provided: http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
It’s kinda crazy how long MP3 has been around and how many people are actually still using it today. Other music platforms from the mid to late nineteen hundreds didn’t really seem to last as long as MP3 has. I feel like MP3 evolved as technological advances did. Being able to download music onto an MP3 also helped it’s popularity a bunch. Included is an article about the best MP3’s of this day in age and the trend they have set.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/best-music-players/
Mp3 have revolutionized the way we listen to music, and impacts how we listen to music today. These music players helped to show different ways music was bought and listened too. They also helped to push streaming platforms into the light.
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/mp33.htm
Dear Creator of the Mp3,
YOU ARE AMAZING. I remember being young and putting on 3 of my christmas list that i wanted the mp3 players and each year there was an updated version of this device. My aunt would put some cord in it and hook it into her samsung computer and boom id have music, took a while but i was the coolest kid on the street. The tramendous growth and evolution that this device has had from the late 90’s even until now ( because some people still use them just not as often) i am actually astounded to know how my very first portable music player device came about. For sure a worth to read.
Below is an article that i read recently that shows a tragic disapperance of an mp3 player
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/1/20677636/sony-walkman-anniversary-tps-l2-cassette-music-player-portable-mp3-evolution
With the development of the MP3 player, the accessibility of music increased immensely. Now, anyone could listen to their favorite songs on the go, wherever, whenever. With this development, the increase in the amount of platforms that provide music increased. The piracy of music from sites like napster became commonplace. It is an understatement to say the MP3 changed the music industry.
Below, you’ll find an article detailing the evolution of the mp3 player.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/174725/evolution_of_the_mp3_player.html
The development of the MP3 player was created with the idea of sending music signals over telephone connections. The MP3 player gained popularity because of the decreasing cost for storage space and the growth of the internet, leading to dozens of companies wanting to create something similar. The creation of the MP3 player provided listeners the accessibility to listen to music anywhere at anytime. The article below explains how the MP3 player influenced the world.
https://blog.tlcsolutions.ca/throwback-thursday-the-mp3-player
The creation of the mp3 player came to be from the original idea of sending musical signals over telephone connections. And then not much after the development of the mp3 the internet exploded as storage space cost decreased. mp3 files are very useful even though I feel like we take them for granted in the high tech world we live in. But for more examples of just how important the mp3 is in our daily lives read this article
https://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/155962/technology/the_importance_of_mp3_player_during_your_day_and_life.html
When the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits announced in May 2017 that they would terminate their license for an industry-standard audio file format they had developed nearly 30 years before, the life of the MP3 was over. While poster Samuel Sanchez does claim (with his reference source at Forbes) that the format is still used in many music file transactions after the announcement, these cases are almost entirely for sharing to and from older computers and outdated content platforms. We sit in the grace period for the final days of the MP3, as old machines are replaced and media websites updated to fit with new standards of audio compression and integration with video format (MP4). MP3 may still be breathing, but only on life-support.
The AAC audio format (an enhancement of the MP3 file) developed by the
Fraunhofer Institute is now the “de facto standard for music download and videos on mobile phones.”
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/12/mp3-is-dead-long-live-aac/
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-mp3-is-officially-dead-after-its-creators-abandoned-it
Going all the way back to 1894 a physicist found that a tone could be rendered inaudible to the human ear by layering it with another tone with a lower frequency. This limitation to human hearing is called auditory masking and it’s what the mp3 lossy audio compression algorithm takes advantage of. After 1894 it took another 60-70 years before people became interested enough in this phenomenon to try and exploit it. The history is fascinating despite me not understanding all the code terms and whatnot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
For most people, when you think of an mp3 file, not much comes to mind, it is just a file that plays music on your iPod. What most people don’t know is that the creation of the humble mp3 file is responsible for the creation of mp3 players, iTunes, Youtube, Napster, Windows Media Player, and the death of the CD. just to name a few. The mp3 is one of the most simple, complex inventions to come out if the 21st century.
The Mp3 made listening to music digitally way easier. Once I got an Mp3 thats when I started listening to way more music. I literally had like 3-4 different iPod generations because I loved it so much. There was even different online services that had songs that could be downloaded in seconds. Mp3 honestly changed the way to distribute musical recordings forever in my eyes.
Here’s more information about Mp3:
https://www.britannica.com/technology/MP3
Although the MP3 seems like a more 90s or 2000s invention, the fact that the foundation for the technology began in the late 1970s is pretty incredible! The LC-ATC codec (low complexity adaptive transform coding) was created in 1987 before shifting through many other prototypes and names before finally landing on “mp3” in 1995. Thankfully, the mp3 could not have been created at a better time due to the technological advancements of high-performance computers and the vast expansion of the internet. The following link takes you to an article from 2017 that claims that mp3 is dead and also gives a brief summary of the history of mp3.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/207213/20170513/the-mp3-is-dead-heres-a-brief-history-of-mp3.htm
When the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits announced in May 2017 that they would terminate their license for an industry-standard audio file format they had developed nearly 30 years before, the life of the MP3 was over. While poster Samuel Sanchez does claim (with his reference source at Forbes) that the format is still used in many music file transactions after the announcement, these cases are almost entirely for sharing to and from older computers and outdated content platforms. We sit in the grace period for the final days of the MP3, as old machines are replaced and media websites updated to fit with new standards of audio compression and integration with video format (MP4). MP3 may still be breathing, but only on life-support.
The AAC audio format (an enhancement of the MP3 file) developed by the Fraunhofer Institute is now the “de facto standard for music download and videos on mobile phones.”
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/12/mp3-is-dead-long-live-aac/
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-mp3-is-officially-dead-after-its-creators-abandoned-it
It was crazy to read that the format for MP3 started back in the 70s; I always thought of it as an early 2000s device. it was also interesting to see that the MP3 player was created at the right time, when it came out, the price of storage was decreasing, new computers were coming out, and the Internet was growing, so MP3s immediately gained popularity, and paved the way for other portable players to be developed by other companies. But according to this article I read, MP3s are pretty much dead now, as there are so many other ways to listen to and pirate music now. The MP3 became popular due to its portability and small file size, useful for pirating music, but now, Advanced Audio Coding has taken over, and there are plenty of streaming services on devices like smartphones that have replaced the MP3 player.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/207213/20170513/the-mp3-is-dead-heres-a-brief-history-of-mp3.htm
The astounding aspect would be the fact that the MP3 player was released in the 1980s and yet most people believe that it is a modern-day invention (early 2000s). The MP3 is to credit for opening the doors of new and better technologies that we use today and many of us forget our ‘roots’, per se. What I found most interesting about the article is that in order to produce a standardized MPEG, the number of technologies started at fourteen and went down to four, and then the final product, one.
Below is the link to my article:
(Although it’s short, it explains what the MP3 is and its uses)
https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/MP3_player
After reading the article, I was surprised by how early the portable MP3 player was introduced. The MP3 player was a revolutionary innovation, which paved the way for the invention of portable devices. With that being said, I was interested in the evolution of all of the portable music devices. Therefore, I found a video that shows the evolution of portable music players. The video shows the evolution of these devices from 1954 to the 21st century. Furthermore, the video also explains the new innovations added to the devices, such as longer battery time, upgrades storages, and other groundbreaking advances.
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Trs-KNNIw
It is interesting to see the history of Mp3 and how it developed into what it is today. The Mp3 was the catalyst for todays music on the go and many of the apps and programs that bring us music. This article is about how the Mp3 affected the industry in more depth.
https://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
Bringing up a point made in a previous comment, it has been almost 30 years since the conception of the MP3 and yet we still use this as the primary form of listening to music. AS technology becomes more progressive we have yet to break from this outdated form of listening to music. I have a feeling that many genuine listeners of music will side with me on the fact that older forms of music bring out the history formed within these mediums. But, when it comes to MP3, to combat forms of piracy such as torrent files, there must be some way we can develop a new form of file for music, and this is specifically the problem, the key problem with MP3 is piracy, and to end this issue, we must progressively pursue a new form of audio sharing.
Why MP3 is detrimental for the music industry.
https://www.engadget.com/2015/06/26/mp3-digital-music-piracy/
I find it incredibly fascinating to read about the history of the MP3 because it isn’t something that most people would look deep into. More than that, it’s very intriguing to me to see how many hands and how many years it took to bring the format to the status that it would become and still is. It reminds me of an earlier chapter in the course (Hi-Fi) that also had a much overlooked history that is better explained than I could possibly do justice, by the article attached.
http://www.nutshellhifi.com/library/tinyhistory1.html
The MP3 was a device of the future to the people who were new to it back then. It all began around the time of the 1970s, this revolution was filled with technology structuring, adjustments from storage to Internet, and even forming the final extension to the file of MPEG layer 3. The link below is a crash course based off of the high-quality sound of digital technology and the history of MP3 itself.
https://youtu.be/7Gh2NbjbDug
This article was an interesting read for me as I was unaware that the mp3 was created so recently. I imagined the mp3 was created earlier than stated in the article. Also, I was unaware the first mp3 created was at 28.8 kbps which is terrible quality. I thought that modern mp3, at 128 kbps, sounded awful, but 28.8 kbps is practically indecipherable. Higher bit rates helped the quality of music playback from computers. Nowadays we have full 320 kbps mp3 files that sound very clear.
Here’s an article explaining more about the relationship between mp3 and bit rates.
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/mp32.htm#:~:targetText=Bit%20rates%20range%20from%2096,sound%20quality%20as%20a%20CD.
I never imagined that MP3 originated that far back in time. The reality of MP3 has made a dent in the music industry because it created a minimalistic approach to adhering to music. The development of MP3 opened the doors to other technology advancements like the iPod and video files. It sparked the idea of smaller handsets in technology but also increased piracy rates substantially. MP3 complimented the idea of smaller is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
It is very interesting how the idea of mp3 technology was invented so long ago. In addition it is mind-blowing how much further it took the music industry and recorded audio tech. Though it wasn’t beneficial to musicians at first due to how easy it was to pirate music it definitely was a necessary evil as time went by. The idea of having recorded data in mid air that was brought by mp3 led to a constant push for bettering this tech. Sooner or later as smartphones rose streaming apps were developed with the same idea but were easier to use and more effective to artists and consumers.
here is an article talking about the pros and cons of mp3 and streaming : https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pros-cons-streaming-downloading-mp3s/
The MP3 is probably the most impactful and also the foundation for this online streaming music era. The format has allowed many to consume music in such an easy way. I remember during the ringtone era of like crank that by Soulja boy and Vans by the pack, MP3’s were so easy to export and transfer to my little MP3 player. I also remember how easy it was at the time to download Limewire and Bearshare and just pirate so many songs and how it was basically just the norm at the time to do so. I think without the technology put into this file format we wouldn’t have things like Spotify and apple music as our current music platforms.
Here is a song that redefined music and also the MP3 era as a whole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII
I found it surprising that the building block of the mp3 system that we know was initiated by a university. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg’s research along with the help of Fraunhofer IIS brought about the LC-ATC codec that allows for coding of stereo music. As a student in college, it is sometimes easy to feel like the research we do isn’t benefiting the world, but the researchers at the AudioLab have made a serious impact of the way we listen to music today. The companies are now developing an Enhanced Voice Services, (EVS), allowing for clearer voices and audio quality on mobile phones. The team also contributed to Ultra High Definition TV that we all know and love.
Here’s an article about what the FAU is currently developing:
https://www.fau.eu/2015/10/05/news/audiolabs-fraunhofer-iis-and-fau-extend-partnership/
I was surprised to learn how long it took for .mp3 to become the standard file format for music. Mainly because I didn’t realize development started in the 80’s. It does make sense though considering how slow and inefficient computers at the time were compared to not just today but the computers of the early 2000’s when .mp3 really took off, which took hours to download a single album. I also didn’t realize that .mp3 was dead, and replaced by Advanced Audio Coding, until reading another student’s post. This is likely due to the change in how we listen to our music. In this instance we moved from downloading to streaming. Hopefully in the future they discover a medium that can digitally replicate analog recordings.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/207213/20170513/the-mp3-is-dead-heres-a-brief-history-of-mp3.htm
An mp3 is a portable audio device used to play music. It took the music industry and recorded audio tech to the next level. It was a big building block for portable devices that could then be used to stream music as technology advances. More portable music devices came such as smartphones, iPods, etc. The mp3 took the hits early on, so that the other devices could thrive.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
This article was very enlightening because I had no clue that .mp3 was in the making since the 1970’s and all that went into the process. It was very interesting to here how people got these companies to combine their efforts to create this type of file system, considering when you think of inventors they tend to be very secretive and don’t like to share information. On the outlook, their cooperation lead to the creation of one of the best compression filing systems ever made, which is still being used today almost 30 years later.
This article explains .mp3 and its effect of how we listen/get music:
http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
It never occurred to me that the mp3 is so old. I guess I always thought of it as newer technology but it is very interesting to me how much research and work went into it. I never thought that the mp3 was that big of a deal. I’m still a little bit confused on “CODECS” but what really made me interested was the development of the mp3 and how it came together.
Below is a cool video I found to explain the history of the mp3.
https://youtu.be/0-SXTMUOA2Q
I always thought the MP3 was made roughly around the late 90’s, not thought of in the 70’s. I suppose they did make their debut in the late 90’s, so I was not completely wrong. MP3 was one of the first ways I remember listening to music as a kid. Here is an article I found on how a new format called AAC has taken over how we download music in today’s world, and says essentially that MP3 is dead.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/207213/20170513/the-mp3-is-dead-heres-a-brief-history-of-mp3.htm
The Mp3 is so historical, I remember having one as a little boy….i’ve had plenty actually, From an Mp3 disc player and also about 4 corner store mp3’s and uploaded music on them myself at the age of 7. I use to love music and just thinking of the mp3 and how historical it was back in the day brings back memories. Thinking of how old it is makes me think of how its been improved through the years. From RCA Mp3’s to Apple Ipods, ive had every single one.
Here’s a article about the history of the mp3 player:
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
It is interesting to see the evolution of audio. The start of a major era of the music industry was the mp3 and it rooted from a university. It started out as individuals wanting to do digital audio broadcasting but it evolved into something that was important and very popular in its time period. It is interesting to see how the conversation of an mp3 started and the connections between the beginning of creating this to what we know now. If you would like to read more about the roots of the mp3 take time to look at the article below which talks about the history of digital audio broadcasting.
https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/audio-video/broadcast-audio/digital-radio-audio-broadcasting-dab-tutorial.php
It’s crazy how the new desire to create a new audio standard revolutionized the industry for like the fifth time. An urge to have something new and modern in the age of tech conglomerates led to the joining of multiple coding proposals and developed the mp3, a system devised to be able to store tons of more music in a minimized size. This went hand in hand with the advancement of computers and thus a new digital age of music was born.
For more info about the mp3, here’s an article:
http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
The invention of the MP3 changed the way we listened to music as it became more portable and changed how we consume music to this day. The MP3 influenced technology as music became more “on the go” and not a media only consumed in the home. Its invention was so revolutionary that today music is no longer only available in physical copies but is also available through streaming.
https://www.maniactools.com/articles/impact-of-mp3-on-the-music-industry.shtml
In my personal opinion, the invention of the MP3 player is a real life example of patience leading to something great. I never knew that the thought of the invention of the MP3 was from as early as the 1970s. I always thought that it was in the process of being invented in the late 90s or early 2000s, but as they always say, you learn something new everyday. Here is an article which gives more information about the history of the MP3, which I found pretty interesting:
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
I always thought mp3 was developed in the late 80s and 90s but I never thought it was developed in the 70s. I can see why mp3 was such a breakthrough. It was compact and did not take up that much storage on a device. It could be taken anywhere on devices such as computers and mp3 players. I had a few mp3 players when I was a child and I would fill that sucker up with tons of songs. Mp3 files were so easy to download and transport which is a reason mp3 became so popular. If you want to purchase an mp3 player, I provided an article that presents mp3 players that are still worth buying today!
https://www.cnet.com/news/old-mp3-players-that-are-still-worth-buying/
Ever since the creation of the MP3 file the music industry has been a roller coaster in so many different ways. At first it was seen as helpful due to how easily transferable these files are. That was until the internet advanced and things started to spiral out of control because of music piracy. This creation made things so easy for others to access music and anything audio related. Whether it be your favorite song, a recording of one of your most love podcasts. You can bet that today it’s In MP3!
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/mp3.htm
Very cool to read about the steps taken to get to the creation of the MP3. You rarely hear about the process, such as the names it was given before MP3 and all of the coding that went into it. The MP3 created a template for future audio files, and was extremely popular in the time it was here.
With the invention of the mp3 coming to life, it brought one of the greatest and biggest life-changing events regarding recording globally. Mp3’s gave endless supplies of a music library to holding sound files and they spread through the houses in every state like a wildfire. Mp3’s really have been around for almost over a decade now, and it has advanced to things like streaming. Music and the way things are shared have changed dramatically over time, I think for the better. But I believe the mp3 has to be easily one of best inventions known to man to this day. Below is an article about how mp3’s changed the way we listen to music.
http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
The mp3 has been around for almost 30 years. The technology to create it was the most advanced at the time and people had never seen it before. The crazy part is that the same technology is still used til this day. Why hasn’t there been any advancements since then? Yes some advancements have been made but nothing as big as the mp3 at the time it was produced. The technology used in the mp3 still plays a major role in todays software and still nothing has been created to fully replace it.
Here is a link to show a timeline of the creation of the mp3:
https://www.mp3-history.com/en/timeline.html
After almost 40 years, the life of the mp3 is coming to an end. To think that mp3 began as a patent concept way back in 1987, developing alongside the cassette tapes and television, is really amazing. The mp3 began as a way to send music signals and sounds over the telephone, and evolved into a way to store and play digital media on devices big and small. The music is first compressed onto a file and then transferred to any device that can store or support it. It’s given us the music we have today, and I believe we wouldn’t be where we are in music development without it.
here’s more history:
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/207213/20170513/the-mp3-is-dead-heres-a-brief-history-of-mp3.htm
The making of the mp3 player came to be from the first thought of sending melodic signals over phone wires and connections. Not much long afterward came the creation of the mp3 and the world went crazy as storage space decreased as well as the price for a smaller capacity diminished. Mp3 records are exceptionally helpful despite the fact that I feel like we underestimate them in the cutting edge world we live in. The Mp3 player was pivotal for me to discover new music as a child. How can one forget those days when all you needed for new music was a computer, your mp3 player, and a usb cable. Brings back awesome memories.
The following link is an article the also demonstrates in more detail how mp3 records and mp3 players were so simple to use and jam out which is what made them so popular back in the day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/about-mp3s
The rise of the MP3 codec and its development has had an everlasting effect not just on me but for the majority of people. The early stages of the MP3 codec started in 1987 and reached the global standard for transmitting audio on computers. When I was younger I remember getting one of those cheap MP3 players that looked like an iPod, it was one of my first experiences with interacting with music through mp3 files. Fast-forwarding to today the MP3 can be seen in every format we use now to get our music.
http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
Its is interesting to learn that the mp3 has been around for so long. I was unaware that it was developed so early on. The process of development seemed very tedious but necessary. This type of file is so common today and changed the way music was shared forever.
This article shows the impact of the mp3
https://johnnyryan.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/the-mp3-its-origins-and-its-impact/
MP3 are very similar to CDs in the way they encode sound. They covert sound into 1s and 0s. The benefit from MP3 is the space they take up. You can maintain the quality of sound even though the space is reduced by 30 times. So a 30 megabyte CD file is equivalent to a 3 megabyte MP3 file. In addition, the music in the MP3 format is more portable than that of CDS and overs more versatility in terms of what device can be used.
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https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question118.htm
It’s surprising to me how long mp3 has been around. I had no idea. It’s easy to see that the invention of mo3 was the gateway to many other inventions like digital computer software and many other devices discussed in this article.
https://www.mp3-history.com/en/timeline.html
the mp3 has to be one of the greatest inventions that I personally got to witness for my self. Users were now able to hear music on demand and it definitely had a change on the music industry if im not mistaken it also had an effect on record sales as well.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
I had no clue that the mp3 was created so many years ago. It really has developed a lot throughout time and is used widely today. Here our some interesting facts about the MP3.
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/10-interesting-facts-on-the-mp3-player
The MP3 is such a unique and revolutionary item, to this day. Back in the day, it took a lot of coding for MP3’s to download the music online. Not to mention how it inspired a lot of technology to have access to the storage of music.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
After reading the article, I was very interested in the way mp3 came about in the real world. I did not realize that storage space was so important for the audio to stream correctly. I also learned that mp3 began a long time ago and started out as simple file exchange, I specific memory I have of mp3 is a program that was named “Limewire:, which let anybody who had the program download a huge library of music to their library without having to pay for anything. People were concerned that this website was was illegal but the creator Mark Gorton argued that he was “within the confines of the law”. I linked an article explaining the history of Limwaire and similar websites that did the same thing.
https://www.geek.com/gadgets/limewire-napster-the-pirate-bay-a-brief-history-of-file-sharing-1359473/
I remember getting my first MP3 player. It was tiny!! I loved that thing. The thing I did not realize, especially at that time was that it developed so long ago. I thought when I got my player it was brand new and just developed. By compacting these large files into these smaller more manageable files was the new revolution. Now as technology develops, the MP3 is no longer top dog.
http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
In 1989, the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG), an international standardization organization, was planning to introduce an audio standard, and OCF was put forward. MPEG received a total of 14 audio coding proposals, and the participants were encouraged to combine their contributions.
I had an MP3 player when I was little. I loved it so much. What I did not know was that they came out in the late 90s. I thought they had just came out when i was little, in the early 2000s. Then to see right after MP3s were launched, high performance computers came out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3_player
Mp3 was a game changer in the music industry. I had no clue it came out so early, I was thinking it started somewhere in the 2000s but I was wrong. Ever since this piece of technology came out we have been using it since in different ways and truly deserves its credit in this world.
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/mp31.htm
Ever since Mp3 came out it changed the music game. Although, I didn’t know that it was invented so long ago, it has definitely had it’s purpose in the music industry. With that being said, Mp3 has probably been the most innovative technology.
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2011/03/23/134622940/the-mp3-a-history-of-innovation-and-betrayal
I honestly thought the MP3 was a newer piece of technology due to Apple releasing theirs in 2001. I feel like since Apple is so trendy to buy, many cool or revolutionary pieces of tech are overlooked until they do it, which is usually a while later. It’s pretty smart of them to hop on others bandwagon by creating the same underrated product, but making it look nicer and cooler to consumers.
Classic MP3 player. This tech was revolutionary when I was in the 5th grade and was shockingly one of my favorite forms of tech. Even though I never own the Apple Touch, I did have my very own b grade version that still allowed me to download my favorite musics inexpensively. The MP3 advanced the idea of various songs and artist on one device. One could also say that the MP3 contributed to the creation of many music platforms such as Apple Music, Spodify, Pandora, and even YouTube, all platforms where various artists and styles of music are in one location.
The MP3 was such a revolutionary piece of tech when it was released by apple as the Touch. It allowed for all your favorite songs and artist to be accessible on one device. This improved the the Casset or CD player. The MP3 player also paved the way for many music platforms such as Pandora, Spodify, and Apple Music.
If you would like to read more on the benefits of the MP3 player please check out the link below:
https://www.online-sciences.com/technology/mp3-player-uses-features-advantages-and-disadvantages/
Tech would make holding music within your pockets a possibility. MP3s while quality reducing would allow the accessibility and with the dawning of the iPod by Apple and eventually the iPhone Mp3s would be the next standard for consuming music. It’s during this time in history that consumers are benefitting the most in fact stealing music via pirating and holding onto it was easier than ever. Apple didn’t encourage pirating music especially with iTunes but it sure as hell didn’t stop it. Itunes was designed for importing music from external sources!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deopyTQOn7I
The MP3 player was something that changed how we were able to playback music and video files. This led to a great leap in technology and how we could transfer data. MP3 stands for Layer-3 which was the most efficient and complicated of the three codes that were available. It allowed music projects to be saved on computers and allowed data to be shared and transmitted across computers. 1995 was the year that mp3 got credited with its name after an poll. In 1998 we can see mp3 taking off after its increased popularity, and decrease of storage place. Not too far after mp3 was launched high power computers were hitting the market, and storage mediums were getting cheaper and the internet started to grow. The world had now understood that mp3 was a great way to format music to be easily shared across multiple devices. You can put a whole library of music onto a flash drive if you convert the music to mp3. This led to a high demand of portable music and mp3 delivered just that. Music could now be on your phone, laptop, car and any device that was capable of mp3 playback.
Three coding techniques were established, one was the mp3, a code based on ASPEC. The third layer, or mp3, was the most efficient out of all them. It was applied in to commercial applications and became a revolutionary piece of technology. With technologies such as the iPod and computers, mp3 files were wildly used. People could now travel with music at their finger tips. It truly was an incredible discovery.
Some more history of the mp3:
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
The mp3 changed the way music was stored and sold. MP3 also increased music piracy through websites like Napster. However, mp3 also increased the overall spread of music through services like iTunes.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
When ever I hear “MP3” I always get a rush of nostalgia. I loved my mp3 player when I was a kid and would carry it everywhere I went. I loved having so many of my favorite songs on it and being able to listen to them where ever I went. The mp3 file was revolutionary for the digital audio world and it’s honestly surprising to me how early it came out as I thought it came out in the 2000s.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132
The mp3 is one of the innovations in the music world that truly revolutionized music as we know it. I think its safe to say that most of grew up with an mp3 player. I am surprised that once again this technology was introduced so long ago. Similar to the walkman, mobile music is always praised. Apple’s “Ipod” was a game changer and . one of the reasons for their great success.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/10/23Apple-Presents-iPod/
mp3 is an amazing concept. It is fascinating to know someone created a file format that made audio files much more compressed than at the time was thought possible. What this article helped me understand was how it came to be, but I also wanted to know exactly what mp3 does. I use a converter to get audio clips from YouTube videos, using a website called YouTubetoMP3. The article here describes the process mp3 uses to create the files it does:
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question118.htm
I feel like the impact of the MP3 was created from the use of cassette tapes. The idea of using music digitally helped give rise to the use and creation of the MP3. From there it made obtaining music faster and easier. Over the years the MP3 evolved and now we can listen to music from our phones.
It’s crazy to see that with how fast the technology goes, but we are still using the Mp3 which his story “began at the end of the 1970s with the idea of sending music signals over telephone connections”. The fact that we are still using it shows how great this inventions was. It would have been a little more difficult for us to listen to music is the Mp3 wasn’t invented because its small size.
http://theconversation.com/not-dead-yet-how-mp3-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-77856
The MP3 music format is an iconic format, still being used today and its hard to imagine it came from the 80s. being such an old format shows it’s effectiveness as one of the most widely used digital formats.
I never knew how timeless MP3 was. I’m surprised how well it has aged and how accessible it still is to this day. I’m also that big artists still use MP3 as well. More about MP3:
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/207213/20170513/the-mp3-is-dead-heres-a-brief-history-of-mp3.htm
The MP3 file format made it so that large files could be compressed and take up less storage and memory. This made downloading many files possible and can be credited with making the music industry millions via digital sales. Without the development of the MP3 file i doubt Apple would have ever released the iPod, and where would they be now? However like many things there is a downside, the mp3 also gave rise to an easier way of conducting music piracy.
https://medium.com/@karthikpasupathy/mp3-the-file-format-that-revolutionized-the-music-industry-a0ba82e9c2dd