The First Perfected MP3 In History’s Opening Lyric: “Doo”
In Business Week's profile of Karlheinz Brandenburg (often cited as the inventor of the MP3) the mag traces the history and development of Microsoft's favorite audio file format and reveals that the reproduction of Suzanne Vega's deviously simple "Tom's Diner" was the litmus test for the technology's success. (via slashdot.org)Brandenburg's involvement in digital music compression began in the early 1980s ...
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