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What was first proposed in 1979?
The psychoacoustic masking codec
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Which country were the researchers located in?
United States
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Who was the first to produce hardware for speech?
Krasner
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What does LPC stand for?
linear predictive coding
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What was reported in IEEE's Journal on Selected Areas in Communications?
audio compression algorithms
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What does OCF stand for?
Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain
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What does PXFM stand for?
Perceptual Transform Coding
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What was the name of the codec that OCF, PFXM and other contributes merged into?
ASPEC
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Which competition did ASPEC win?
quality
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What was the first practical implementation based on?
Motorola 56000 DSP chips
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What kind of student was Karlheinz Brandenburg?
doctoral
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When did Karlheinz start working on digitmal music compression?
early 1980s
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Where did Bradenburg become an assistant professor at?
Erlangen-Nuremberg
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Who did Brandenburg work with in music compression?
Fraunhofer Society
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When did Brandenburg join the Fraunhofen Institute?
1993
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What was the name of the first song used to develop the MP3?
Tom's Diner
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Who was the artist of the first song used?
Suzanne Vega
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Who adjusted the song?
Karlheinz Brandenburg
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The song was listened to multiple times to try and refine what?
scheme
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What particular aspect of the artists voice was he trying to preserve?
subtlety
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How many proposals were available in 1991?
two
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Other than ASPEC what was another proposal?
Musicam
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The Musicam format was proposed by Philips, based in which country?
Netherlands
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Which other quality alongside simplicty was key in selecting this proposal?
error robustness
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What was the Musican format based on?
sub-band coding
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What was only incorporated into Layer III and not Layers I or II?
filter bank
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Who was the chair that oversaw the editing of the standard?
Professor Musmann
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Who's responsibility was it to edit the standard for Layer I?
Leon van de Kerkhof
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Who's responsibility was it to edit the standard for Layer II?
Gerhard Stoll
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What was the name given to the proposal?
ASPEC
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What did the joint proposal provide?
the highest coding efficiency
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Other than Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fraunhofer Society and CNET, who else was a part of the joint proposal?
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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What did the working group take ideas from?
ASPEC
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What did the working group integrate their ideas with?
filter bank
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Where was the filter bank taken from?
Layer 2
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What did the working group eventually create?
MP3
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What quality were they hoping to match at 128 kbit/s?
MP2 at 192 kbit/s
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When were the algorithms approved?
1991
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When were the approved algorithms finalized?
1992
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What was the first started suite by MPEG?
MPEG-1
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What was the official name of the internation standard?
ISO/IEC 11172-3
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When was the international standard published?
1993
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Further work on MPEG was finalized as a part of which MPEG standard?
second suite
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What was the official name of ISO/IEC 13818-3 better known as?
MPEG-2
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At what rate were the new sampling rates defined in comparison to MPEG-1 Audio?
half
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Apart from cutting the frequency fidelity in half, what else was cut in half?
bitrate
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Allowing the coding of audio programs with more than two channels was a major aspect of what?
MPEG-2 Part 3
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As MPEG-3 had a different meaning, what was the name given to the extension of MPEG-2?
MPEG-2.5 audio
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Where was this extension developed?
Fraunhofer IIS
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The new sampling rates widened the scope of MP3 to be able to include what?
human speech
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What is not an ISO recognized standard?
MPEG-2.5
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As MPEG-2.5 is unofficial, it is considered what kind of extension to the MP3 format?
proprietary
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What defines the compression efficiency of encoders?
bit rate
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Compression ratio depends on the sample rate and bit depth of which signal?
input
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What does CD stand for?
Compact Disc
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What can CD parameters be used as references for?
compression ratios
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Other than CD parameters, what else can be used as parameter references?
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) SP
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What type of recording did Brandenburg use?
CD
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What did Brandenburg use the recording to refine?
the MP3 compression algorithm
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What word describes the nature of the song used?
monophonic
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As a result of her song being used, Suzanne Vega is sometimes referred to as what?
The mother of MP3
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Excerpts were taken from which reference compact disc to assess the subjective quality of the MPEG audio formats?
EBU V3/SQAM
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Which language was the reference simulation software written in?
C
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Who developed the reference simulation software?
the ISO MPEG Audio committee
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When was the reference software approved?
March 1994
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When did the reference software become an international standard?
1998
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What could the reference software demonstrate?
real time hardware decoding
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When was the first software MP3 encoder released?
7 July 1994
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What was the name of the first software MP3 encoder?
l3enc
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What was the filename extension?
.mp3
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What was the name of the first real-time software MP3 player?
WinPlay3
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What was the average high end hard drive size?
1000 MB
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What was Jonathan Sterne's profession?
sound scholar
[ "MP3\n\nAs sound scholar Jonathan Sterne notes, \"An Australian hacker acquired l3enc using a stolen credit card. The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it \"thank you Fraunhofer\"\"." ]
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Which nationality was the hacker who acquired I3enc?
Australian
[ "MP3\n\nAs sound scholar Jonathan Sterne notes, \"An Australian hacker acquired l3enc using a stolen credit card. The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it \"thank you Fraunhofer\"\"." ]
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What did the hacker use to acquire the software?
stolen credit card
[ "MP3\n\nAs sound scholar Jonathan Sterne notes, \"An Australian hacker acquired l3enc using a stolen credit card. The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it \"thank you Fraunhofer\"\"." ]
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The hacker re-wrote which element of the program?
user interface
[ "MP3\n\nAs sound scholar Jonathan Sterne notes, \"An Australian hacker acquired l3enc using a stolen credit card. The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it \"thank you Fraunhofer\"\"." ]
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How much did the new released program by the hacker cost?
free
[ "MP3\n\nAs sound scholar Jonathan Sterne notes, \"An Australian hacker acquired l3enc using a stolen credit card. The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it \"thank you Fraunhofer\"\"." ]
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Where did MP3s begin to spread?
the Internet
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Which audio player was released in 1997?
Winamp
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Who released the audio player?
Nullsoft
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What was the name of the first portable solid state digital audio player?
MPMan
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In which country was the first portable audio player developed?
South Korea
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Which website offered MP3s for free?
mp3.com
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How many MP3s were offered for free by the website?
thousands
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What kind of file sharing became popular due to the file sizes of MP3s?
peer-to-peer
[ "MP3\n\nIn November 1997, the website mp3.com was offering thousands of MP3s created by independent artists for free. The small size of MP3 files enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from CDs, which would have previously been nearly impossible. The first large peer-to-peer filesharing networ...
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How did people come into possession of MP3s?
ripped from CDs
[ "MP3\n\nIn November 1997, the website mp3.com was offering thousands of MP3s created by independent artists for free. The small size of MP3 files enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from CDs, which would have previously been nearly impossible. The first large peer-to-peer filesharing networ...
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Which network was the first large peer to peer file sharing network?
Napster
[ "MP3\n\nIn November 1997, the website mp3.com was offering thousands of MP3s created by independent artists for free. The small size of MP3 files enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from CDs, which would have previously been nearly impossible. The first large peer-to-peer filesharing networ...
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What kind of infringement resulted from sharing MP3s?
copyright
[ "MP3\n\nThe ease of creating and sharing MP3s resulted in widespread copyright infringement. Major record companies argued that this free sharing of music reduced sales, and called it \"music piracy\". They reacted by pursuing lawsuits against Napster (which was eventually shut down and later sold) and against indi...
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What name did the record companies associate with MP3 file sharing?
music piracy
[ "MP3\n\nThe ease of creating and sharing MP3s resulted in widespread copyright infringement. Major record companies argued that this free sharing of music reduced sales, and called it \"music piracy\". They reacted by pursuing lawsuits against Napster (which was eventually shut down and later sold) and against indi...
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Who was the target of the record companies?
Napster
[ "MP3\n\nThe ease of creating and sharing MP3s resulted in widespread copyright infringement. Major record companies argued that this free sharing of music reduced sales, and called it \"music piracy\". They reacted by pursuing lawsuits against Napster (which was eventually shut down and later sold) and against indi...
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What happened to Napster?
shut down and later sold
[ "MP3\n\nThe ease of creating and sharing MP3s resulted in widespread copyright infringement. Major record companies argued that this free sharing of music reduced sales, and called it \"music piracy\". They reacted by pursuing lawsuits against Napster (which was eventually shut down and later sold) and against indi...
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What kind of MP3 file sharing continues on?
Unauthorized
[ "MP3\n\nUnauthorized MP3 file sharing continues on next-generation peer-to-peer networks. Some authorized services, such as Beatport, Bleep, Juno Records, eMusic, Zune Marketplace, Walmart.com, Rhapsody, the recording industry approved re-incarnation of Napster, and Amazon.com sell unrestricted music in the MP3 for...
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Beatport, Bleep and Juno records are examples of what kind of service?
authorized
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What kind of music is sold by these companies?
unrestricted
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Which format is used by the companies that sell the music legally?
MP3
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A header and data block together make up what?
MP3 frames
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What is a sequence of MP3 frames called?
elementary stream
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What is used to identify the begining of a valid frame of an MP3 header?
dard
[ "MP3\n\nAn MP3 file is made up of MP3 frames, which consist of a header and a data block. This sequence of frames is called an elementary stream. Due to the \"byte reservoir\", frames are not independent items and cannot usually be extracted on arbitrary frame boundaries. The MP3 Data blocks contain the (compressed...
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How many bits are needed to indicate that layer 3 is used?
two
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MP3 files today contain what kind of metadeta?
ID3
[ "MP3\n\nAn MP3 file is made up of MP3 frames, which consist of a header and a data block. This sequence of frames is called an elementary stream. Due to the \"byte reservoir\", frames are not independent items and cannot usually be extracted on arbitrary frame boundaries. The MP3 Data blocks contain the (compressed...