“How music got free” by Steven Witt

The author found mp3 in 1997 in college
He downloaded multi-thousands of songs and albums for free
This was the beginning of the piracy generation

Colby North Carolina named Dell
The founder of Internet piracy
A few organized gropes released the original mp3 files.
Germany-inventors of the new music tech became rich

Spring of 1995 the end of the mp3
In Germany
Brandenburg leads the investigation to locate the original of mp3 and
Swiker- was an anatomy guy who created products in the analog era
Moving sounds together to trick the human ear
Physio acidic masking illusion
Sisor-a computer scientist
Who exploded Swimmer’s research flaws when CD
came out but he knew there would be a digital data compression but his invention was denied

Analysis by synthesis
Breaking up audio into bits. Overlapping tones
To me, this is complicated since I’m not into computer science or manipulating data
Huffman coding- by David Hoffman in
The 1950s look for patterns to combine bits pure simple tone

The original six -the team that helped Brandenburg
Stream music
Store music
They created comprehension technology
At&t and other large companies gave money to move this tech forward
A filter bank- tech that split sound into component frequencies
M peg game their endorsement of the New compressed music tech MP2 and the MP3 different format for digitizing music
The author illustrates his points with wonderful descriptions of people places and items BUT most of this information is unnecessary and distracts from the main points of the book

Glover (Dell) and Dockery friends who both enjoyed music computers and worked at the same factory
Music brought people together even those of different races and backgrounds

Dell worked at Polygram aka Phillips a music company they made CDs

I had never heard of an MP2 prior to reading this book but I am familiar with MP3 because I have owned a few different versions of MP3 players in the past and downloaded plenty of “free” music on the web
Music went from being creative to becoming business
In 1981 MTV was born and pop music turned it’s focus to singles

The order taker-authority- who had the info on what music was being sold
This was before computers and tracking of sales in the 1960s

Jimmy Iovine (in charge of Interscope records) and Morris
Pushed hardcore rap music
Started with Dr Dre tithe chronic
Death rope signed with Time Warner as their distributor
Snoop Dogg Dr Dre and 2 pac became their biggest super starts
Their first controversial group is 2 live Crew the only song to ever be banned in American history for obscenity face down ass up

Mp3 was seen as difficult to operate and was played on systems that were larger than VCR players

Steve Church-teloce
He listened the to the national hockey league to play music during games
1995 is the start of mp3 in North America during the new hockey season
Lp3 was a tool for ppl to create their own mp3 files at home
Later Intel was the first processor that could play an mp3 files from CDs
Brandenburg

The first handheld mp5 was the size of a brick and only held over minutes of sound
They created wind play for Windows 95 it could play 20 songs
By 1995 it cost $5

Wares (software) -digital piracy of anything with sound music games even porn

Glover ripped 2 pac all eyes on me from q CD then started it for free online

Morris signed Cash Money (headed by birdman and slim) -first hit was Juvenile song back that ass up

CD bootlegging was huge and a problem for record companies so they included the state to solve the problem by arresting people
Morris realized Micheal Jackson’s Thriller was the big change that was needed
Customers wanted better quality music to give them a reason to purchase music

The AAC tech took over, which was created by the Fran Hoffer team and backed by corporations

In every area (universal music group) there was someone leaking data
Music, movies, games etc

Seen fanner (college student) created Napster-trading mp3 online
Options to streaming music became the digital jukebox

Glover stole CDs from the music plant by wrapping them in one of his gloves, hid it in a crack of the grinder then put the CD in back of his belt buckle

I have to admit I used to use lime wire and remember when they were sure and sit down

Coim-The bit Torrence- make downloading faster by taking small bits from one song as multiple ppl were downloading it then convinced the bits together for the full song to play