History of MP3

	Revision 19 . . (edit) December 14, 2001 12:35 pm by Ryrivard
	Revision 18 . . (edit) November 29, 2001 1:31 am by RobLa [link to audio compression]
	Revision 17 . . October 29, 2001 4:51 pm by RobLa [Added link to codec page]
	Revision 16 . . October 1, 2001 1:09 am by Damian Yerrick [corrected caps on mp3PRO to correspond to usage on mp3licensing.com]

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MP3 (or more precisely, MPEG-1 Layer 3) is an audio compression algorithm capable of greatly reducing the amount of data required to reproduce high quality audio vs. the uncompressed linear PCM data stored on a conventional audio CD.

MP3 (or more precisely, MPEG-1 Layer 3) is an audio compression algorithm (a.k.a. codec) capable of greatly reducing the amount of data required to reproduce high quality audio vs. the uncompressed linear PCM data stored on a conventional audio CD.

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Many other lossy audio compression methods exist including

Many other lossy audio compression methods (codecs) exist including

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[Thomson Consumer Electronics] controls licensing of the MP3 patents in countries such as the United States of America and Japan that recognize [software patents]?.

[Thomson Consumer Electronics] controls licensing of the MP3 patents in countries such as the United States of America and Japan that recognize [software patents]?. Thomson Consumer Electronics has, so far as yet, decided not to cash in on the patents, but this possibility looms like a shadow over the .mp3 file. In fact Microsoft, the makers of the Windows operating system, chose to move away from MP3 to their own proprietary Windows Media formats to avoid any copyright implications. However the perpetuation of the MP3 continues; both from people's familiarity with the format, to the wide variety of existing software that takes advantage of the file that revolutionized the music industry and copyright law.