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Everything about MP3
Digital audio format
MP3 is an audio coding format developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners; for example, compared to CD-quality digital audio, MP3 compression can commonly achieve a 75–95% reduction in size, depending on the bit rate. In popular usage, MP3 often refers to files of sound or music recordings stored in the MP3 file format (.mp3) on consumer electronic devices. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MP3A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Massively parallel measurement of protein–protein interactions by sequencing using MP3-seqInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: If Tomorrow ComesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Scaled MP3 Non‐Covalent Interaction Energies Agree Closely with Accurate CCSD(T) Benchmark DataCited 250 times
- Go sideways: MPEG-1 Audio Layer IIA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MPEG-1A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Alternative letter-case form of MP3.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Scaled MP3 Non‐Covalent Interaction Energies Agree Closely with Accurate CCSD(T) Benchmark Data
The mp3 as cultural artifact
MP3: A Software Tool for the Prediction of Pathogenic Proteins in Genomic and Metagenomic Data
The effects of practice with MP3 players on driving performance
The Effects of Listening Environment and Earphone Style on Preferred Listening Levels of Normal Hearing Adults Using an MP3 Player
Comprehensive Study of the Thermochemistry of First-Row Transition Metal Compounds by Spin Component Scaled MP2 and MP3 Methods
MP3 Players and Hearing Loss: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Loud Music and Hearing Conservation
Adolescents and MP3 Players: Too Many Risks, Too Few Precautions
🆕 Influential since 2022
Massively parallel measurement of protein–protein interactions by sequencing using MP3-seq
Anaerobic flora, Selenomonas ruminis sp. nov., and the bacteriocinogenic Ligilactobacillus salivarius strain MP3 from crossbred-lactating goats
An in-silico NMR laboratory for nuclear magnetic shieldings computed via finite fields: Exploring nucleus-specific renormalizations of MP2 and MP3
MP3, a quantitative trait locus for increased panicle number, improves rice yield potential in Japan by connecting with high source and translocation traits
Path release among practices in the process of path constitution: How the MP3-path appeared in the field of recorded music
📚 Books worth reading
If Tomorrow ComesSidney Sheldon · 1984
How Music Got FreeStephen Witt · 2015
The Great TraditionFrances Parkinson Keyes · 1939- 📕The iPod & iTunes pocket guideChristopher Breen · 2007
The iPod & iTunes pocket guideChristopher Breen · 2005
The handbook of MPEG applicationsMarios C. Angelides · 2010
Sonic BoomJohn Alderman · 2001
Podcasting bibleSteve Mack, Mitch Ratcliffe · 2007
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