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Article: 20 Years of Audio Coding at Fraunhofer IIS: Videocasts Deliver Insight into Early Days of the mp3 Invention.
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- January 10, 2007
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In 2007, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS is celebrating 20 years of audio coding. Back in 1987 a breakthrough in audio coding activities was achieved at Fraunhofer IIS with the introduction of the first real-time implementation of a predecessor of mp3.
ERLANGEN, Germany -- The German research institute is commemorating this milestone with a range of events including the release of videocasts at www.iis.fraunhofer.de which deliver an insight into the development of mp3 and the early days of audio coding.
It all started back in the 70s with the goal of compressing music for transmission over phone lines. Developments in the following ...