Mp3 technology was developed by a German Company Fraunhofer Gesellshaft which now licenses the patent rights to the audio compression technology.
There are two names mostly associated with the development of the MP3. The Fraunhofer institute helped with the audio encoding buy Dieter Seitzer, a professor at the University of Erlanger. Dieter Seitzer worked on the quality transfer of music over a standard phone line. This research was being led by Karl Heinz Branden Burg who is also called the father of MP3. Karl Heinz was a specialist in mathematics and electronics and was involved in researching methods to compress music since 1977.
Timeline of MP3
In 1987, the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany began research code named Eureka project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting.
In the month of January 1988, Moving Pictures Expert Group or MPEG was established as a subcommittee of the International standards organization.
In April 1989, a German patent was received by Fraunhofer for MP3.
In the year 1992, Fraunhofers and Dieter Seitzers audio encoding algorithm was integrated into MPEG -1
In the year 1993, MPEG-1 standard was...