Articles
A year and a half after first launching MP3Scene we are extremely proud to present version 2 of the site.
We had a tremendous first year, amassing an incredible archive of files, nfos, images and more, thanks to many contributors who have reached out to help our cause. When we first launched this site we were just a few friends scraping together files that we had collected over many years. We were forced to make certain compromises in order to launch, sacrificing features that we would have liked to include ...
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Since the inception of the mp3 scene in 1995/96, packaging methods have changed drastically. Initially groups had their own quality standards/rip methods and it wasn't until late 1998 that 'official' scene rules were established.
This article outlines the packaging methods & standards utilised throughout the history of the scene.
1996: In The Beginning
The first organised mp3 groups - CDA, DAC & RNS - initially packaged mp3's in a similar way to the 0day/app scenes; releasing a single track at a time, split into 1.44MB RAR files which ...
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Article that originally appeared on dmusic.com, written by Chad Hart on Sep 27, 2000. Part in a series that covers 96-99.
1997 was a year shaped by the accomplishments and efforts of the energetic early adopters, who forged a path for those that would soon follow.
MP3 was an IRC-only phenomenon for much of 1996 and 1997 until people started to construct websites dedicated to the format. These early websites described the format, and made the tools needed to create and play the files available to all those that ...
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Article on the history of mp3, written by Christopher Jones on 27 Jul 2000 and originally appeared on Lycos Webmonkey (no longer viewable)
Behind the Music: The History of MP3
MP3, an obscure compression format that has the music industry shaking in its gold-studded boots, is surely one of the Web's most unlikely heroes.
MP3 is short for Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III, and is a compression format that shrinks audio files with only a small sacrifice in sound quality. MP3 files can be compressed at different ...
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This article gives a brief summary of the history and origins of the mp3 scene. Some of the below adapted from an article written by Netfrack of CDA
Prior to MP3, a music warez scene would have been prohibitive due to the filesizes of uncompressed WAVs coupled with the slow connection speeds at the time. The MP3 codec had been in development for several years and the first (command line) mp3 encoder, L3enc, was released in 1993, with the first MP3 software player, WinPlay3, arriving in 1995. An article written ...
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