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  2. MP3 - Wikipedia

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    MP3-history.com Archived 11 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine, The Story of MP3: How MP3 was invented, by Fraunhofer IIS. MP3 News Archive. Archived 3 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine – over 1000 articles from 1999 to 2011 focused on MP3 and digital audio. MPEG.chiariglione.org Archived 10 April 2024 at the Wayback Machine – MPEG ...

  3. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    The CD is considered the last dominant audio format of the album era, as the rise of MP3, iTunes, cellular ringtones, and other downloadable music formats in the mid-2000s ended the decade-long dominance of the CD. [4] The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general purpose data storage and initially could hold much more data than a ...

  4. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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    An audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content —in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format , but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data.

  5. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    The development of the MP3 audio file format, and legal issues involved in copying such files, has driven most of the innovation in music distribution since their introduction in the late 1990s. As hard disk capacities and computer CPU speeds increased at the end of the 1990s, hard disk recording became more popular. As of early 2005 hard disk ...

  6. Compact Disc Digital Audio - Wikipedia

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    Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA or CD-DA), also known as Digital Audio Compact Disc or simply as Audio CD, is the standard format for audio compact discs. The standard is defined in the Red Book technical specifications , which is why the format is also dubbed "Redbook audio" in some contexts. [ 1 ]

  7. Compressed audio optical disc - Wikipedia

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    A compressed audio optical disc, MP3 CD, or MP3 CD-ROM or MP3 DVD is an optical disc (usually a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW) that contains digital audio in the MP3 file format. Discs are written in the "Yellow Book" standard data format (used for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs), as opposed to the Red Book standard audio format (used for CD-DA audio CDs).

  8. How Music Got Free - Wikipedia

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    Witt states that Glover and RNS became the world’s premier music pirates, possibly costing the record industry millions of dollars. [1] The book describes how the then CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, attempted to weather the storm created by technological changes given the evolution of social culture. Witt comments that "the ...

  9. Album - Wikipedia

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    The 10-inch and 12-inch LP record (long play), or 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. [15] A single LP record often had the same or similar number of tunes as a typical album of 78s, and it was adopted by the record industry as a standard format for the "album". [7]