Video interview with MP3 co-inventor

So I was especially interested when I ran across a recent CNET video interview (below, approx. 17 min.) at CES with Karlheinz Brandenburg, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, one of the original co-inventors of MP3:

Here are some of the topics Brandenburg addresses in the interview:

• Origins of MP3 - what was it trying to solve, how was it named, file extension?
• Reasons for its success
• Problems with MP3 (e.g., pre echo issue with percussive material)
• MP3 vs. AAC ("AAC is what MP3 should have been from the beginning")
• How does it work? (Psychoacoustics, masking, quantization noise)
• Audiophiles and MP3s
• What's the best encoding bitrate?
• The "warm" sound of vinyl LPs and tubes
• "Placebo" effect and blind testing
• What's next? (e.g., MP3 Surround, MP3 metadata databases, immersive sound for theme parks, server-based processing)

Comments, questions or suggestions? Email me at rich.pell@verizon.net.

Related links:
Video: MP3 creator on digital media
MP3: Audio boon or bane?
Happy birthday to the MP3 player
Rolling Stone: Hi-Fi not dead after all

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