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64 unusual facts about .mp3


Album Era

In 1999, the internet peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster allowed internet users to easily download single songs in MP3 format.

Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley

The album is long out of print, but copies have occasionally been sold on eBay, as well as exchanged in MP3 format on p2p networks.

All That I Need Is to Be Loved

The U.S. vinyl was re-released in 2006 in digital form on Amazon.com (MP3) and iTunes (AAC).

Benjy Ferree

Leaving the Nest (2006) (LP, CD, MP3) in November in the US, and in January 2007 in Europe

Come Back to the Five and Dime Bobby Dee Bobby Dee (2009) (CD, MP3) in February in the US, and in December 2009 in Europe

Bernhard Grill

Darnhard Grill (born January 5, 1961) is one of the developers of the MP3 technology.

Berry Sakharof

The album was sold in the first week only on the Internet in the MP3 format and later released to the music stores; due to the release of the album Mochiach arrived in Israel and participated in a short concert tour with Sakharof.

Bill Hambrecht

Hambrecht is also credited as one of the first major investors to recognize the value of technology and biotech companies, helping to take Apple Computer, Genentech and Adobe Systems public in the 1980s with his earlier San Francisco-based company Hambrecht & Quist, which he founded in 1968 and which also backed the IPOs of Netscape, MP3.com, and Amazon.com.

Bill Kincaid

He then enlisted Jeff Robbin to develop the front-end for an MP3-playing software they named SoundJam MP.

William S. "Bill" Kincaid (born March 10, 1956) is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur notable for creating the MP3 player SoundJam MP with Jeff Robbin that was eventually bought by Apple and renamed iTunes.

BiS Kaidan

The sound of the vinyl release is mixed with 40% more noise than the CD version, and so included a download card with a link to download MP3 versions of the mixes included on the record.

Blacksmoke

The first Blacksmoke releases were MP3s hosted on the Blacksmoke website, the tracks including "Gimpo Gimpo" and a remix of same entitled "Fuck the Fucking Fuckers".

Can You Hear the Sound?

The album was officially released in 2006 in two formats: the first as an official CD, and the other as a digital MP3 download.

Craig Wuest

A now defunct earthstarmusic.com Web site listed later releases; one in particular, Axiom, which was listed as following Humans Only, had clearly been recorded and MP3 samples of the music were included on the Web site.

Dada Entertainment

Formed in October 2007 and based in New York City, Dada Entertainment was the first company to offer both ringtones and DRM-free full-length MP3s for mobile devices and personal computers paid via the mobile phone.

Daihatsu Luxio

This type of audio is also equipped Double DIN R / T + CD with MP3.

Dancing Madly Sideways

The album was released for free download through numerous MP3 websites, and as a mail-order exclusive physical release from Detroit's website.

Devil in a New Dress

"Devil in a New Dress" was first released on September 3, 2010, and was the fourth song to be featured apart of Kanye West's GOOD Fridays, a music giveaway that provided free MP3 downloads every week.

Doctor Who: Podshock

Since September 2005 the show has been produced in two audio formats: an enhanced version, encoded in AAC, and an MP3 version.

Excite Truck

Excite Truck is the first Wii game to let people select music, in the form of MP3s from an SD card, to be played in the background while they are playing instead of the music provided by the game.

Friedrich Wührer

Reissued by Pristine Classical in downloadable MP3 and FLAC format as PASC139, dubbed from an LP copy; Pristine gives the recording dates as September 12–13, 1957 and the release date as 1958.

G-Book

A G-Sound music distribution service offers samples and downloading to the vehicle's hard disc drive of MP3s from different genres.

Heart sounds

Using electronic stethoscopes, it is possible to record heart sounds via direct output to an external recording device, such as a laptop or MP3 recorder.

Here's to Being Here

In promotion of the album, the label released two songs, "Out of Time" and "Charlyn, Angel of Kensington", in MP3 format.

Holy Trinity Church, Leicester

At each service, the sermons are recorded, and are made available as a podcast or can be downloaded individually from the church website in MP3 audio format.

I-drive

At its height, i-drive hosted over 10 million registered users, employed 110 people, and held partnerships with MP3.com, ZDnet.com, and 40 major universities.

Joe Avati

He also released Live and Unpluggato in late 2000 which was placed on the internet as a downloadable MP3.

KCDX

He used the signal as a 2.7-kW personal MP3 player, broadcasting to central and eastern Arizona.

Kung Kao Po

Since October 19, 2003, an audio edition of the newspaper, recorded in Cantonese, is also available in MP3 format from the newspaper’s web site.

Lawn Boy

In February 2009, Lawn Boy became available as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish.com.

Looking Out for Number One

Since the mid-90s, unauthorized MP3 format copies of the 12" version have been widely circulated online.

Los Ciegos Del Barrio

In 1998, they released their first self-titled demo album on cassette tape, and, in 2000, released their first full-length album, "No Lo Dude," which features their first underground hit "Dime Donde Estas," their first song to get radio airplay, and first to hit #1 on the former MP3.com website.

Maladroit

For their fourth studio album, Weezer attempted to incorporate an innovative system in which they'd release demos in MP3 format on their weezer.com website every day while in the studio working on Maladroit.

Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Napster was a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service, founded by Shawn Fanning, that emphasized sharing digitally encoded music as MP3 audio files.

Mobile Revision

Mobile Revision is a CD-ROM containing short revision video and audio clips (MP4, MP3 and 3GP) that cover each topic of the Key Stage 3 Science UK curriculum for school children aged 11 – 14 and allows all users to download, watch or listen on their own personal mobile devices including mobile phone, DAP and PC or an interactive whiteboard.

MP3.com

Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in the case UMG v. MP3.com, ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3.com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner."

Odyssey Through O2

However this issue is minor because anyone today can play their CD audio music elsewhere as some digital copies (MP3, AAC etc..) or other recordings on an other place.

Orthogonal matrix

As another example, with appropriate normalization the discrete cosine transform (used in MP3 compression) is represented by an orthogonal matrix.

Paul Collister

Collister is currently transferring all of the recent works of Alan Gill to MP3 for free download.

Paul LaFarge

Other parts of the website include quotations, such as an excerpt from a 1934 letter Walter Benjamin "wrote" to Gershom Scholem, in which he makes a deeply complicated observation about Poissel, and also MP3 files featuring early archival "recordings" of Poissel's voice, reciting (in French) portions from his own "works".

Performance Rating

Many experts argued that this made the PR-rated chips poor choices for games, streaming video, or encoding MP3 music.

Perodua Myvi

The new Myvi features a modified front grille, front bumper, front bonnet, rear bumper, alloy rims, dashboard color, instrument panel design, MP3/WMA player and seat fabric.

Posthume Records

Digital sublabel (MP3 format) raised in 2011 to celebrate the last decade of Posthume Records.

To celebrate a decade of Posthume Records releases (2001-2011), a new digital (MP3) sublabel, "Division 44 Records", was started by Hibou and has since provided participating artists with an opportunity to release free material on the internet.

Digital commercial sublabel (WAV and MP3 format) to respond to the request of the European fans.

PsyShark

In 2008, PsyShark had begun distributing digital music (MP3s through known companies such a Beatport, Amazon.com/Amazon MP3, iTunes and others.

Rat a Tat Tat

In promotion of the album, the label released songs, "Love Is a Dirty Word", in MP3 format.

Recording Industry of South Africa

This has been interpreted to mean that's it's illegal to convert a CD to MP3 in South Africa.

Rudi M. Brewster

Rudi M. Brewster (1932-2012) was a United States Federal Judge, best known for 2006 ruling in a patent infringements suit against Microsoft tied to the licensing of the MP3 format.

Spencer Saylor

He began sending a few MP3 of his recordings to accepting labels, and an A&R rep at Tate Publishing & Enterprises heard his music, combined with him having already played large shows, and led to Saylor being offered a publishing contract with Tate.

Suomisaundi

These criticisms, however, have become increasingly inaccurate as the average production quality has improved significantly and the majority of releases are now distributed with a minimum quality of 320kbit/s MP3.

Two of the most notable suomisaundi labels in Finland are Exogenic Records and Freakdance Records, but many of the popular Finnish trance-artists might not have recorded, making their music only available as MP3s on the Internet.

Supernatural Superserious

It is the first single and third track from the band's fourteenth album Accelerate and was first released on February 11, 2008 as an MP3, and February 25, 2008 on CD.

The Laziest Men on Mars

While the band released no official albums, a number of songs were available on MP3.com.

The track "We Are Something Awful" is a Laziest Men On Mars song, but was not available on MP3.com at the time of Vivendi's sale of the site to CNET in 2003.

The Matheson Trust

An ongoing hear! project is converting scholarly texts and other texts of interest into MP3 format, and making them available through the Audio section of the library.

The NESkimos

Due to legal reasons, the NESkimos have not released any form of CD, but instead release all their songs in MP3 format on the Internet, and provide album artwork.

The Siket Disc

In February 2009, this album was made available as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish.com.

The Story in Your Eyes

Fountains of Wayne did a cover version of the song for their 2010 album Sky Full of Holes, it was available only as an Amazon.com MP3 bonus track.

The Travel Show

The EP was never released on CD; however, it can be purchased on the Internet as a digital download in MP3 format.

Tropicana Evansville

This 100-room boutique hotel features Italian bed linens, LCD flat screen televisions in both bedroom and bath, in-room high speed Internet access, MP3 input, and glass-enclosed showers with multi-unit body sprays and overhead rain maker showerheads.

Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative

It includes links to numerous audio recordings in MP3 format and images.

Walking in London

It is also possible to download a tourist guide of London onto an MP3 player or use mobile phone-based services.

WUML

The streaming audio is conveniently available at various bit rates (for slow and high speed connections) in MP3 and Ogg formats.


Audio Home Recording Act

The RIAA filed suit to enjoin the manufacture and distribution of the Rio PMP300, one of the first portable MP3 players, because it did not include the SCMS copy protection required by the act, and Diamond did not intend to pay royalties.

Bach Technology

Investors include the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Sony Music Entertainment, Shigeo Maruyama, and MP3's inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg.

BeOS R5.1d0

In a potential move towards releasing the system as open source software, many proprietary items had been removed: the MP3 encoder was replaced with LAME, and OpenSSL replaced the RSA Encryption Engine in the NetPositive web browser.

Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shō

Susumu Hirasawa, who did the music for the anime and the DC game, composed Sign as the opening theme (as well as Sign-2, an alternate version of Sign that was used as the game's end theme); both tracks were released by Hirasawa's Chaos Union company in downloadable format through Hirasawa's WORLD CELL MP3 ONLINE SHOP for 4 US Dollars on December 20, 2004.

Chrysler Pacifica

Limited models came with a year subscription of Sirius satellite radio, 6-disc DVD player capable of playing MP3, DVD audio, DVD video, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs, and an available eight-speaker 385-watt Infinity "Intermezzo" audio system with subwoofer.

Durabrand

Durabrand does have some "company rivals," despite the low prices, their products are matched up between other in-house brands like Wal-Mart's iLo brand (considered as an upmarket brand, offers MP3 digital audio players and plasma video displays), Target's TruTech brand; and to an extent, K-Mart's former Curtis Mathes/White-Westinghouse (in the mid-to-late 1990s) now Home Essentials brand.

Fashion S9110

The Fashion S9110 has a multimedia player and recorder for music (mp3) and video (mp4), a WAP 2.0 web browser, a 1.3MP camera, FM radio, Compass basic handwriting recognition and an e-reader that supports only text files.

Frozen Synapse

The expansion also includes a new soundtrack for the game and a chiptune album by artist ensnare (Paul Taylor's musician pseudonym) called Impeccable Micro, both available in MP3 and FLAC formats.

I Disappear

The discovery of an unfinished version of the song in early 2000 on the peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster helped bring the illegal sharing of mp3 files to the spotlight, leading to the lawsuits that eventually brought down the original incarnation of Napster.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

Imagemakers

Foxton Locks, Leicestershire – outdoor 3D installations, seating, exhibition, site leaflet and MP3 audio trail for British Waterways and partners.

Ivan Shapovalov

With his friend Pavel Vrublevsky he is a co-owner of the commercial mp3 download site Mp3search.ru.

John Fanning

John Fanning (born December 21, 1963) is an Internet and technology investor and entrepreneur who was a co-founder in 1999 of Napster, an Internet file-sharing service focused on music files that was invented by his nephew Shawn Fanning, along with Sean Parker and Jordan Ritter.

Late Night Venture

Flying Virgins existed in the period 2001-2005 where a record was made: Your Spectacular Light and the EP Lazy Star one of the first free EP's distributed on the internet as MP3 and FLAC.

MediaGoblin

HTML5 capabilities are widely used to play video and/or audio contained in WebM format; while FLAC, WAV and MP3 uploads are automatically transcoded to Vorbis audio and then encapsulated into WebM.

MPEG-1

Decoding MP2 audio is computationally simple, relative to MP3, AAC, etc.

Pyglet

Images, video, and sound files in a range of formats can be done natively, with more additional capabilities supplied by the optional AVbin plugin, which uses the Libav package to provide support for audio formats including MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio, and video formats such as DivX, MPEG-2, H.264, WMV, and XviD.

Rod Underhill

A musician, his album “Science Friction,” released internationally as an attachment to his book on MP3 technology, was the first all MP3 format CD released by a major publisher and resulted in his induction into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences .

Samsung YEPP

It can play MP3, Ogg Vorbis, ASF and WMA format files, and can record voice into MP3 at bit rates from 32 kbit/s to 128 kbit/s from a built-in microphone.

Sony Ericsson W300i

The W300i can read both MP3 and MP4 tracks, and software which comes with the mobile phone (Disc2Phone) can convert other file types such as WMA, and although album artwork is not viewable, the W300i will read track details (via id3v1 tagging): artist, album, song name and sort them for easy access.

Sony Ericsson W900i

It also includes Bluetooth, a 2 mega pixel digital camera with auto-focus and the ability to take QVGA video at 30 frame/s supplemented by a second VGA camera used for video calling and self-portraits and most advertised of all, its ability to play MP3 audio files in Walkman mode for up to 30 hours and its ability to play long length MPEG-4 videos.

Sony NW-A810

Crave, the CNET gadget blog, named the NW-A810 series as one of the MP3 players that shaped year 2007, with another three, the Zune 80, iPod touch, and the ZEN.

Sound quality

If additional compression is required, lossy audio compression such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC can be used.

Stranger on the Shore

It was also played by Karl Pilkington on his phone while riding a camel across the desert and on his MP3 player when he is buried alive in Russia on an episode of An Idiot Abroad.

The Joke's on You

Like many Excel albums, the recording is out of print, but this album, along with the band's others, can readily be found for sale on Chinese, Ukrainian, and Russian mp3 websites.

The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites

The album's lead single was "Bethamphetamine (Pretty, Pretty). The video for the single featured Avril Lavigne in a starring role. Those who preordered the album from select outlets were given the bonus track "New York Minute" in mp3 format.

The Wandas

" New Wave Blues is full of sweet harmonies and music that is unburdened with extravagance" - indie.mp3.co.uk "This is some of the best pop I've heard this year" - Mary Leary; San Diego Entertainer Magazine.

Top 40

By the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the 45 rpm record would decrease in popularity and other means would be used to evaluate the popularity of new songs, such as cassette-single, CD single, and digital MP3/AAC sales (plus radio airplay).

Toyota Camry Solara

Interior changes include Optitron gauges, blue backlighting in the rest of the car's controls, a new steering wheel design that is somewhat similar to the recently revised Camry SE's steering wheel, revised shifter, MP3 and WMA CD playback capability, external audio device (e.g. iPod, Zen, cassette) auxiliary port connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity, and voice-activated navigation on the SLE V6 models.

Trusonic

Founded originally in 1999 as a small business unit SBU of the now defunct MP3.com, Trusonic provided background music to businesses.

Twelve Days of Rugrats

It also is one of the 3 MP3 downloadable tracks released October 12, 2004, as the Rugrats Holiday Classics CD.

World Driver Championship

The development team was able to optimize the usage of the various processors within the N64 to allow a great draw distance (reducing the need for fog or pop-up), highly detailed texturing and models, Doppler effect MP3 audio, and advanced lighting and fog effects for realistic weather conditions.