Choosing a reference song

0:03

i am sitting in the morning i think i

0:05

listened to tom steiner probably 500

0:08

times a thousand times

0:11

3 000 times i don't recall

0:14

but awful

0:16

tom steiner was important for us in

0:19

creating mp3 because it sounded so bad

0:23

when we first coded it

0:25

[Music]

0:29

this is one of susan vega's most famous

0:32

songs

0:33

tom's diner

0:34

and it helped create the mp3 the audio

0:37

format that basically killed the cd

0:41

but who's better to show us how an

0:43

acapella track led to the rise of online

0:45

music sharing than the guy who created

0:48

it

0:51

my name is carl heinz gruntenberg most

0:54

people know