Developing the MP3 format

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most

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people know me from my involvement in

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the invention and development of mp3 so

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in fact some people call me the father

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of mp3

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back in the 1980s carl hines was part of

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a team working to develop a way to

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compress music while still keeping its

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high quality something that seemed

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impossible at the time speech coding was

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already well established

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but if you try to code music with such a

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speech coding algorithm it just sounded

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horrible then one day i saw an article

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where they discussed different

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loudspeakers and how they tested them

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they tested it with the acapella piece

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tom steiner from ccd

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so carl hines and his team decided to

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use the same song to test their latest

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compression algorithm but when they did

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we managed