Audio Player

Leon Scott

Mar 25, 1857

Léon Scott de Martinville’s 1857 invention called the “phonautograph.”

Thomas Edison

Dec 24, 1877

Thomas Edison created the cylinder phonograph. It was the first human recording in 1877. (He made the claim on December 24, 2012

First Broadcasting

Jan 1, 1987

1987 - The Fraunhofer Institut in Germany began research code-named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB).

First Idea of MP3

Apr 1, 1989

April 1989 - Fraunhofer received a German patent for MP3

Audio Coding

Jan 1, 1992

1992 - Fraunhofer's and Dieter Seitzer’s audio coding algorithm was integrated into MPEG-1.

First standard publish

Jan 1, 1993

1993 - MPEG-1 standard published.

U.S. issued for MP3

Nov 26, 1996

November 26, 1996 - United States patent issued for MP3.

They issued a license for the MP3

Sep 1, 1998

September 1998 - 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.

First portable MP3

Jan 1, 1999

1999 - Portable MP3 players appear.

SubPop was the first company to record

Feb 1, 1999

February 1999 - A record company called SubPop is the first to distribute music tracks in the MP3 format.

Apple created Ipod

Oct 23, 2001

It was released on November 10, 2001