Description of Popular Audio Formats

MP3 – MPEG-1 Layer III (or MPEG Audio Layer III) MP3 was introduced as a part of the official MPEG-1 standard in 1992 and until today it is the most successful audio standard since WAV. The German Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG), which has developed this audio-compression still holds the key patents the MP3-techology inherits. The development … Read more