00:00You've played music on a phone, a car, a laptop, but why does it always just work?
00:05It's 1987. A German engineer has one mission. Shrink music without destroying it.
00:13The result? MP3. And it changed everything.
00:18Here's the secret. MP3 doesn't store the full audio.
00:22It throws away sounds your brain can't even hear. Frequencies masked by louder ones.
00:27A raw audio file, 50 megabytes. The same song in MP3, just 5 megabytes.
00:33But why does it play everywhere? Because in 1995, the format became an open standard.
00:39No single company owned it. No licensing walls. Any device, any software could read it. For free.
00:45Your Android. Your iPhone. Your 2003 Dell laptop. Your car stereo from 2009.
00:51They all speak the same language. MP3. Try it on ump3.com.
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