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MP3 stands for MPEG Audio Layer III and it is a standard for audio compression that makes any music file smaller with little or no loss of sound quality. MP3 is part of MPEG, an acronym for Motion Pictures Expert Group, a family of standards for displaying video and audio using lossy compression. Standards set by the Industry Standards Organization or ISO, beginning in 1992 with the MPEG-1 standard. MPEG-1 is a video compression standard with low bandwidth. The high bandwidth audio and video compression standard of MPEG-2 followed and was good enough to use with http://wiki.answers.com/library/inventors/bldvd.htmtechnology. MPEG Layer III or MP3 involves only audio compression.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoMP3 is a shortened version of the title MPEG layer 3. MPEG is the acronym for the Motion Pictures Experts Group and layer three refers to one of several data handling payers that can be used in MPEG encoded content.
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∙ 13y agoIt pretty much means that its a music player that plays MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) files.
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∙ 15y agoMP3 stands for
Moving pictures expert group layer 3 audio
yeah a lot for just 2 letters and a number.
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∙ 8y agoIt is a standard for formatting music files.
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∙ 13y agoMPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
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