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Music was never invented; birds sing, water drips, leaves rustle, wind sighs, fire crackles. It might be better to ask, "Who first realized that the world is so filled with music?"
Music was discovered when the earliest humans would rub sticks and stones together. -
The Fraunhofer Institut in Germany began research
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Fraunhofer received a German patent for MP3
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MPEG-2 developed and published a year later.
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United States patent issued for MP3.
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Portable MP3 players appear.
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A record company called SubPop is the first to distribute music tracks in the MP3 format.
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by this time things srarted getting nicer.
