MP3

MP3 is an audio coding format developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of... Wikipedia

• Developed by:  Moving Picture Experts Group
• Initial release:  December 06, 1991
• Latest release:  ISO/IEC 13818-3:1998
• Type of format:  Lossy audio
• Contained by:  MPEG-ES, AVI, Matroska, MP4, WAV
• Extended from:  MP2 and ASPEC
• Extended to:  mp3PRO, MP3 surround, mp3HD
• Standards:  ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3
• Open format?:  Yes (expired patents)
• Data Source:  DuckDuckGo