In 2001, The Wall Street Journal ran an article that discussed this new thing called “the MP3″ and how some computer-literate kids were really gravitating to its possibilities, trading song files—illegally, of course—over
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Back around 1996, I heard about this new thing called an “MP3” from a guy who was working security at a club where I was DJing. “It’s the best! You can find any
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I think one of the greatest gifts humans have is a sense of curiosity. That ability to question things around to learn why things are the way they are pushes us forward. Here
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The MP3 is dead. Long live the MP3. The Fraunhofer Institute of West Germany–yes, that’s how far back this story goes–began work on an audio compression algorithm in the late 80s. The goal
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It’s impossible to imagine today’s music universe without MP3 technology. Developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in West Germany (that’s how far back development goes), the MP3 compression algorithm is responsible setting music free on
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I think one of the greatest gifts humans have is a sense of curiosity. That ability to question things around to learn why things are the way they are pushes us forward. Here
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I’m currently working on a children’s book for Kids Can Press which traces the evolution of the gadgets we’ve used to listen to music over the decades. The people at EnjoyTheMusic.com have come
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“Stiles?” Did Michael misspell Harry Styles last name? After all, we do talk about his junk late in the program (see below), so it’s possible. He stays up way too late editing the
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The history of attempts at squishing audio goes back more than a hundred years but we really didn’t get serious about it until scientists began investigating the principles of auditory masking and psychoacoustics. Various
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Back in the 1980s, boffins at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany were looking for ways to make digital files smaller so they could be transferred down copper phone lines. After much experimentation, they
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There are a couple of things about American Thanksgiving I really like. (1) Football all day Thursday; (2) Canadian retailers follow the whole Black Friday mentality; and (3) the American media almost completely
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