How MP3 Was Born

Actual Reality points us to an interview in BusinessWeek.com with the man most often cited as the inventor of the MP3 format — though Karlheinz Brandenburg credits many for the development, including in particular Suzanne Vega.

Re:if wasn't this format, it would have been anoth

[Random Destruction]

Its much more likely that people can't tell the difference. Most people think 128kbps mp3 is 'cd quality'. For those of us who know that that's a crock, there's V2 and V0, or even 320cbr. Almost nobody can tell the difference between 320 and flac. So why should people who want to download the latest slammin RnB hit want anything else?

Also with the way p2p mp3s are, if flac became popular, people would just transcode their 128kbps mp3s to flac.

Re:More cutting-edge innovation?

[dam.capsule.org]

I think that last.fm use the data from other users to determine what music you might like. In the same way amazon suggestion system uses.

The guy here seems to work on a system which would analyze the music itself (tempo, melody, ...) to find other matching tunes.

At least that's how I see it.

Re:More cutting-edge innovation?

[mstra]

Ah, so Pandora, then?

Re:if wasn't this format, it would have been anoth

[sherpajohn]

I rip all my cd's into iTunes as wav - I want the original. One issue with that though is there's no meta-data, another I just discovered when I bought an iPod - 8gb is about 12 albums, no where near enough for our one week vacation! So now I had to make AAC copies of every wav file in my collection (that only took 8 hours or so), create playlists using only the AAC files and put them on my iPod. Fun Wow! well, its gonna be really nice for that 3 hour wait in the airport on the way to Mexico.