MP3

Details

Instance of

proprietary file format, lossy audio coding format, lossy compression, audio compression, audio file format, open file format

Publication date

August 1993

Part of

MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Part 3

developer

Fraunhofer Society, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Heinz Gerhäuser, Bernhard Grill, Harald Popp

different from

MPEG-3

file extension

mp3

file format identification pattern

494433

media type

audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robust, audio/mpg, audio/x-mpeg, audio/x-mp3

public domain date

16 April 2017, December 2012

topic's main category

Category:MP3

uses

ID3, APE tag

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