Music Mp3???

It's a question which has been pondering over my head for quite a long time. MP3....What does it stand for, does anyone know? and who invented it if there was an inventor?

 

MPEG layer 3.

Name of the creator escapes me at the moment.

 

Motion Picture Experts Group, Layer 3 encoding.

Research on the MP3 format was begun by the Fraunhofer IIS-A (Institut Integrierte Schaltingen) in 1987 and completed in 1991.

- Ark

 

Thanx for the info guys

 

There were mp2s, yes, but they weren't very good. Low quality and poor compression made people look for a new format, which was mp3. There are better music formats than mp3, now, but mp3 is entrenched the way vhs was when dvd first showed up.

Think of it this way:

Cassette is to CD is to DVD
as
mp2 is to mp3 is to orb vorbis.

Each is a big jump up in quality and space. Orb encoding isn't very common yet, but I'll bet within 3 years it'll have replaced mp3 as the de facto music standard.

- Ark

 

I've heard that there are some MP4 nowadays...

True or False?

- Teddz

 

There is mpeg-4 video, at least... and that would be OGG Vorbis, right Ark?

 

I still have a few mp2s and yeah, 'tis Ogg Vorbis.

People need to start encoding in ogg.. but please, whatever you do don't convert mp3 to ogg. Going from one lossy format to another just hurts the quality. Best way would be to just reencode, straight from CD to ogg.