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The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities. For example, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market in terms of market share, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint.
A notable exception is MP3 files, which are raw audio coding without a container format. De facto standards for adding metadata tags such as title and artist to MP3s, such as ID3 , are hacks which work by appending the tags to the MP3, and then relying on the MP3 player to recognize the chunk as malformed audio coding and therefore skip it.
DSP, [134] combined sound and graphics processor, ADPCM, MP3 support [135] [136] [137] Sharp Corporation: Sharp SM8521 1997 1 8 32,768 Game.com handheld Sony: Sony SPC700 (Nintendo S-SMP) 1990 8 16 32,000 Super Nintendo Entertainment System console Bit Rate Reduction (BRR) ADPCM [138] [139] Sony SPU (Sound Processing Unit) 1994 24 16 44,100
An MP3 coded with MPEG-2 results in half of the bandwidth reproduction of MPEG-1 appropriate for piano and singing. A third generation of "MP3" style data streams (files) extended the MPEG-2 ideas and implementation but was named MPEG-2.5 audio since MPEG-3 already had a different meaning. This extension was developed at Fraunhofer IIS, the ...
The Yamaha YM2151, also known as OPM (FM Operator Type-M) is an eight-channel, four-operator sound chip developed by Yamaha. It was Yamaha's first single-chip FM synthesis implementation, being created originally for some of the Yamaha DX series of keyboards ( DX21 , DX27 , and DX100 [ 1 ] ).
The United States Civil Service Commission was created by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883. The commission was renamed the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and most of commission's former functions—with the exception of the federal employees appellate function—were assigned to new agencies, with most being assigned to the newly created U.S. Office of Personnel ...
"Heaven Is a Halfpipe" (also known as "Heaven Is a Halfpipe (If I Die)" [4]) is a song by American rock band OPM. It was included on their debut studio album, Menace to Sobriety (2000), and was released on June 27, 2000, as its lead single.
Menace to Sobriety is the debut studio album by American rock group OPM. It was released in August 2000 via Atlantic Records, and was re-released on September 8, 2015 as part of its 15-year anniversary. [2] There is also a clean version of the album, which removes most of the profanities used on the explicit version and any drug references.