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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most…

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Contained by
MPEG-ES, AVI, Matroska, MP4, WAV
Developed by
Moving Picture Experts Group
Extended from
MP2 and ASPEC
Extended to
mp3PRO, MP3 surround, mp3HD
Filename extension
.mp3 .mpga (rarely) .bit (before 1995)
Free format?
Yes (expired patents)

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MP3

Nodes208
Edges207
Triples333
Avg. degree1.99
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MP3

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related to Development · 38
MP3 → And, ASPEC, AT, ATAC, ATRAC Coding, Because, BTRL, CCETT, CNET, DSP, France Telecom, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Frequency Domain, Fujitsu, In December, In June, ISO MPEG Audio, ITT, JVC, Krasner's
related to Standardization · 38
MP3 → Adaptive Spectral Perceptual Entropy, And Multiplexing, ASPEC, AT, Bell Laboratories, Broadcast Technology, CCETT, CNET, Coding, France, Fraunhofer Society, Gerhard Stoll, Germany, In, Institute, It, Japan, Kerkhof, Layer, Layer II
related to Alternative technologies · 33
MP3 → AAC, Advanced Audio Coding, Alcatel-Lucent, Among, ATRAC, Bell, Dolby, ETRI, FFT, Following, Fraunhofer Society, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Many, MDCT, Microsoft, MiniDisc, MP2, NEC, NTT
related to Going public · 29
MP3 → April, Because, CD, DAB, DSP, DTR/DIS, DVB, Fraunhofer, Fraunhofer Society, ISO, ISO MPEG Audio, ISO/IEC, ISO/IEC TR, It, July, Layer, March, MB, MIDI, MPEG Audio
related to background · 26
MP3 → Alfred, American, Atal, Bell Labs, Between, Bishnu, Eberhard Zwicker, Fumitada Itakura, Further, Hall, Harvey Fletcher, In, Krasner, Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report, LPC, Manfred, Mayer, Nagoya University, Nippon Telegraph, Perceptual
related to Internet distribution · 24
MP3 → After, CDs, In, In November, Internet, Internet Underground Music Archive, IUMA, Layer II, Major, MP2, MP3s, MPEG Audio, MPMan, Napster, Nullsoft's, RIAA, Rio PMP300, SaeHan Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea
related to history · 14
MP3 → An MPEG-2 Audio, Group, II, III, ISO/IEC, It, MPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-1 Audio, MPEG-1 Audio Layer, MPEG-1 Part, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 Part, The Moving Picture Experts
related to File structure · 13
MP3 → After, An MP3, Due, ID3, ISO/IEC, Joint, Most MP3, MP3 Header, MPEG, MPEG-1 Audio Layer, The, The MP3 Data, This
related to Metadata · 13
MP3 → APEv2, As, Aside, DRM, However, ID3v1, ID3v2, MP3Gain, Playing, ReplayGain, ReplayGain-compliant, The MP3, These
related to External links · 11
MP3 → April, Archived, February, Fraunhofer IIS, How MP3, March, MP3 News Archive, MP3-history, MPEG, The Story, Wayback Machine

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audio bit rate standard compression mpeg-1 mpeg-2 mpeg patents data format used coding files rates file music iso encoding part

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MP3Contained byMPEG-ES, AVI, Matroska, MP4, WAV1.00infobox
MP3Developed byMoving Picture Experts Group1.00infobox
MP3Extended fromMP2 and ASPEC1.00infobox
MP3Extended tomp3PRO, MP3 surround, mp3HD1.00infobox
MP3Filename extension.mp3 .mpga (rarely) .bit (before 1995)1.00infobox
MP3Free format?Yes (expired patents)1.00infobox
MP3Initial release6 December 1991; 34 years ago (1991-12-06)1.00infobox
MP3Internet media typeaudio/mpeg1.00infobox
MP3Internet media typeaudio/MPA1.00infobox
MP3Internet media typeaudio/mpa-robust1.00infobox
MP3Latest releaseISO/IEC 13818-3:1998 April 1998; 28 years ago (1998-04)1.00infobox
MP3Open format?Yes1.00infobox
MP3StandardsISO/IEC 11172-31.00infobox
MP3StandardsISO/IEC 13818-31.00infobox
MP3Type of formatLossy audio1.00infobox

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