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German patent
Fraunhofer recieved a german patent for Mp3 player -
discovering mp3's
Fraunhofer's and Dieter Seitzer’s audio coding algorithm was integrated into MPEG-1 -
first Mp3 player
first MPEG-1 standard published -
second mp3 player
second MPEG-2 published a year later -
issued for mp3
United States patent issue for mp3 -
enforce patent rights.
Fraunhofer started to enforce their patent rights. All deveoplers of Mp3 encoders or rippers and decoders/players hadto pay a license fee to Fraunhofer. -
record company
A record company called SubPop is the first to distribute music tracks in the MP3 format -
new MP3's
Portable MP3 players appear