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53 - The Guy who Invented the MP3

53 - The Guy who Invented the MP3

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Jack Mangan and Eric Haley visited the Brandenburg Labs booth at NAMMShow 2026 to speak with legendary musical inventor and Internet Hall of Fame Inductee: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, about his latest innovation: Okeanos Pro Headphones. His biggest claim to fame is co-inventing the .mp3 file format.

Topics covered:

-Augmented Reality Immersive Headphones. The sound changes as you walk around the rood. It’s wild to experience.

-Listening to Rush on the Atari 800.

-Impact of the .mp3 format.

SLAM Bumper: Rich Catino.

Full disclosure. The room around us was seriously noisy. Some of the audio is rough. We know. The second half of the video is better. Yes, we did run Noise Reduction.



This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:

OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy
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