I was looking for “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega on YouTube and found out that this song was actually the first song to be converted into MP3. This song was used by Karlheinz Brandenburg to develop the MP3 format. He used this song for testing and development of this ground breaking digital music format that now has been used by everybody to listen to music.
MP3 is a lossy compression algorithm that was designed to further reduce the size of a song file but still sound like the original uncompressed music that is not noticeable for majority of listeners. This involves in removing certain tone that could not be picked up by untrained ears and was called the ‘auditory masking’ by Alfred Marshall Mayer, an American physicist. Richard Ehmer was the one who completed the set of auditory curves on the phenomenon and Ernst Erhardt created the algorithm to describe the masking more accurately. There are now tonnes of research papers and references on the internet for you readers who are curious on how this was achieve.
In the 90’s, MP3 files began to spread on the internet and was popularized mainly with Winamp which was released in 1997 (R.I.P. Winamp). The first portable MP3 player was MPMan which was released to the public on 1998.
MP3 files has also been in a major role in legal issues among the music industries given that it could be shared and spread without the artists’s consent and people can do it more easily with the internet and requires no physical material such as a record/vinyl or a cassette.
Finally, here is the song that was used:
Here is the remix of the song that was played often on radio stations worldwide.
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