History of Mp3 players

mp3 thought of

Jan 1, 1987

•1987 - The Fraunhofer Institut in Germany began research code-named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB).

MPEG established

Jan 1, 1988

•January 1988 - Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG was established as a subcommittee of the International Standards Organization/International Electrotechnical Commission or ISO/IEC.

Patented

Apr 1, 1989

•April 1989 - Fraunhofer received a German patent for MP3

Algorithm integrated

Jan 1, 1992

•1992 - Fraunhofer's and Dieter Seitzer’s audio coding algorithm was integrated into MPEG-1.

MPEG published

Jan 1, 1993

•1993 - MPEG-1 standard published

MPEG-2 developed

Jan 1, 1994

•1994 - MPEG-2 developed and published a year later.

Patent Issued

Nov 26, 1996

•November 26, 1996 - United States patent issued for MP3

Enforcing the patent

Sep 1, 1998

•September 1998 - Fraunhofer started to enforce their patent rights. All developers of MP3 encoders or rippers and decoders/players now have to pay a licensing fee to Fraunhofer.

And here they are!

Jan 1, 1999

•1999 - Portable MP3 players appear.

Subpop

Feb 1, 1999

•February 1999 - A record company called SubPop is the first to distribute music tracks in the MP3 format.