{"id":2446,"date":"2017-05-23T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T07:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkman-archive.com\/wa\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2017-05-23T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T07:41:58","slug":"mp3-format-is-officially-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/2017\/05\/mp3-format-is-officially-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"MP3 format is officially dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>But now, 22 years later, the MP3 truly\u00a0is\u00a0dead, according to the people who invented it. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, a division of the state-funded German research institution that bankrolled the MP3&#8217;s development in the late &#8217;80s, recently\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5076b8;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iis.fraunhofer.de\/en\/ff\/amm\/prod\/audiocodec\/audiocodecs\/mp3.html\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that its &#8220;licensing program for certain MP3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See the news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2017\/05\/11\/527829909\/the-mp3-is-officially-dead-according-to-its-creators\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2017\/05\/11\/527829909\/the-mp3-is-officially-dead-according-to-its-creators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pssst! Don&#8217;t worry, your MP3 files are safe:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2017\/05\/22\/528789165\/dont-worry-your-mp3s-are-safe-a-frank-discussion-on-the-future-of-a-format\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2017\/05\/22\/528789165\/dont-worry-your-mp3s-are-safe-a-frank-discussion-on-the-future-of-a-format<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But now, 22 years later, the MP3 truly\u00a0is\u00a0dead, according to the people who invented it. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, a division of the state-funded German research institution that bankrolled the MP3&#8217;s development in the late &#8217;80s, recently\u00a0announced\u00a0that its &#8220;licensing program for certain MP3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}