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Karlheinz Brandenburg was born on June 20th, 1954. He is the inventor of the MP3 player
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Karlheinz Brandenburg went to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for electrical engineering in 1980
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Later Karlheinz Brandenburg a diploma in math in 1982 at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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The first MP3 player was invented by Karlheinz Brandenburg on December 6, 1991, in Germany.
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mp3 received its current name after it was unanimously selected in an internal poll by Fraunhofer researchers In 1995
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The first release of the MP3 player was in spring of 1998 in South Korea by the Saehan Information Systems.
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A record company called Sub Pop was the first to distribute music tracks in the MP3 format In February 1999.
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The mp3 player evolved into the iPod on October 23rd, 2001.