Use it Love it depend on IT: Entertainment-music

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Checking your phone while having breakfast?

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Let me ask all who are reading this, do you own a MP3/ MP4/ iPod/ iTouch?
Let’s list down some common MP3 brands that we always see around us:

Apple – iPod Touch/Classic/Nano/Shuffle/Video….
Creative – Zen V/Vision/Sleek/Sleek photo/Mosiac/Labs….
Samsung – YP-U3/Yeep YP-MT6V/Yeep YP-T7X/YP-K3/YP-K5/YP-S5/YP-T9JBZB….
Of course there are many many more but that’s not the point. Point is, what is MP3?

Is it simply something for us to listen to music, watch video, record sound?

The term MP3 is actually a reference shortened from the official Moving Picture Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3
Did you know that MP3 was first proposed in 1979? And in 1988, a wide range of such hardware for speech is in the market. It took them so many years to produce an appliance that is able to transmit sound from a hardware to your ear.
It took them so many years till it was able to demonstrate the first real time hardware decoding of compressed audio. And on July 7, 1994, it was the release of the first software MP3 encoder called I3enc. And the term MP3 is actually a filename extention that enabled many people to encode and play back MP3 files on their PCs (.mp3).
Because of the relatively small hard drives back then (~500 MB), compression was essential to store non-instrument based music for playback on computer.

From the first half of 1994 through the late 1990s, MP3 files began to spread on the Internet. The popularity of MP3s began to rise rapidly with the advent of Nullsoft's audio player Winamp (released in 1997), and the Unix audio player mpg123. In 1998, the Rio PMP300, one of the first portable MP3 players was released, despite legal efforts by the RIAA.

In November 1997, the website mp3.com was offering thousands of MP3s for free.[18] The small size of MP3 files enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from compact discs, which would have previously been nearly impossible.

Is this something new to everyone here? From the history of MP3, it is very clearly stated that since the 90s, creating and sharing MP3s resulted in widespread copyright infringement. Since then, major record companies came up with a term called “music piracy”.

In fact, piracy started because of something called “Monkey see, Monkey do”. Because of this, we have been affected by those who started downloading files illegally in the 90s. Websites that allows us to download free music is till now ILLEGAL!

So, to all out there who doesn’t realize how serious it is to download free music rather than getting a copy of the album themselves is as good as copyrighting.

Some ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES of MP3:

ADVANTAGES
1) Ease boredom during travelling time
2) Relaxes one’s mind with the different genre of music preferred by the person
3) Convenient
4) Reasonably priced
5) A great variety to choose from
6) Mass storage (up to 120GB)
7) Many more….

DISADVANTAGES
1) Harmful to the ear when the volume is blasted to the maximum, to the extend that they cannot hear high/low frequency sounds
2) Temptation to download illegally when one cannot afford to buy the album
3) Violating the copyright laws
4) Unfair to many music artistes

Do stay tune for more new posts on the technology…

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