The MP3 format was given its name in 1995, but its development began years before. MP3's roots were in lots of earlier digital encoding research, perhaps most notably the doctoral work of Karlheinz Brandenburg, who is often cited as the format's inventor. He, however, would be the first to tell you that he didn't do it alone.

The inventors named on the United States Patent 5,579,430 for a "digital encoding process," a.k.a. MP3, are Bernhard Grill, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst Eberlein but the two names most frequently associated with the development of MP3 are Karlheinz Brandenburg and University of Erlangen professor Dieter Seitzer.

06/03/2007 · How MP3 Was Born Karlheinz Brandenburg often is cited as the inventor of the music format. But he credits many for a discovery that has upended the music business

23/03/2011 · 1992: MP3 is a reality. The ISO includes it as one of a number of possibilities for encoding audio. But for some time, Brandenburg says, …

The MP3 can be saved in different compression modes, allowing flexibility in data size/quality. This is one of the reasons why the MP3 format is the most widely used audio file format. The History of the MP3 The MP3 was developed by the German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft, and also hold the patent for MP3 technology, which they license out now.

The MP3 format was invented and developed by a German Company, Fraunhofer-Gesellshart. The algorithm has licensed patents for compression technology …

It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. It was approved as …