MP3 or Finger to the Man

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MP3 or Finger to the Man is a presentation about MP3 technology and the consequences of digital convergence.

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MP3or

Finger to the Man?

Jeffrey Gold

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Dates of the R3volution

• 1979, Psychoacoustic Masking

• 1991, ISO standard

• 1995, mp3

• 2007, Steve Jobs kills DRM

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Evolution of theongoing R3volution

• MPEG codec

• MPEG Layer 1

• MPEG Layer II (MPEG 2, HDTV) > MP4 (AAC)

• MPEG-1 Layer III (Audio) > MP3

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Fr33

• Prince’s “Planet Earth” • July 15, 2007

• RadioHead - “In Rainbows” • Oct 10, 2007

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Convergence(another form of compression)

• Everything is digital

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Film

• IMDb

• iTunes

• Withoutabox

• CreateSpace

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Failur3s?

• Audiences don’t know what they are missing

• Dark fiber?

• What happened to Hi-Fi?

• Corollary to Marshall McLuhan’s “The medium is the message.”

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