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An MP3 is a compressed file format used on computers and portable MP3 music players, and playback devices, (there are many variations of these, which we'll describe further on). The development was done at the Fraunhofer Institute Integrate Schulting, in Germany, starting in 1987 and completed in 1989. The format...
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An MP3 is a compressed file format used on computers and portable MP3 music players, and playback devices, (there are many variations of these, which we'll describe further on). The development was done at the Fraunhofer Institute Integrate Schulting, in Germany, starting in 1987 and completed in 1989. The format was patented in Germany and became part of the MPEG standard in 1992, and was granted an American patent in 1996. The official name is 'MPEG layer 3' which has become abbreviated to MP3. From there the format was made popular through the file-sharing network of Napster and others, and the illegal music downloads over the next few years, checkout this page of reviews of legal music d/load sites