Mp3 players.

By Adkins brooke

  • 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 Mp3 player

    first MPEG-1 standard published
  • second mp3 player

    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

    new MP3's

    Portable MP3 players appear