MP3

Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products deploys the first MP3 player in 1997. Five years earlier, the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute Integrierte Schaltungen research center in Erlangen, Germany laid the foundation for MP3 by researching high quality, low bit-rate audio coding through its project named EUREKA. By the end of the 1990s, the MP3 technology become a huge commercial success.
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