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Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institut in Germany began researchcode-named EUREKA project EU147, Digital AudioBroadcasting (DAB)
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Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG was established as a subcommittee of the International Standards. (Day not av
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A United States patent is granted to the German inventors of MP3 format.
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Two German college students bring the AMP playback engine to Windows, creating Winamp, the first MP3 playback software for Windows.(month and day not avaliable)
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Fraunhofer started to enforce their patent rights. All developers of MP3 encoders or rippers and decoders/players now have to pay a licensing fee to Fraunhofer. (Day not available)
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The Sensory Science RaveMP 2100 arrives. It's the first MP3 player with 64MB of memory, voice-recording capabilities and an FM tuner ( Month and date not available)
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Subpop is the first to distribute music tracks in the Mp3 format.
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The Apple iPod debuts, offering 5GB of storage and seamless integration with the iTunes Music Library, but only if you've got a Mac.
