Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
31 May 2017 Acquired SoundJam (iTunes)
“Yup. It’s funny how we take MP3 for granted today but it was not a widely known thing people were distributing MP3s.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 31 May 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SoundJam (iTunes)
Transcript context
…Yeah. And you need a way to manage your MP3 library. Otherwise, these are just going to be random file names sitting on your Finder as you said. Yup. It’s funny how we take MP3 for granted today but it was not a widely known thing people were distributing MP3s. They had to become world experts on reading the ISO spec for what is the MP3 file format and how would go about decoding it. Yeah, amazing. I mean, there are no APIs for this stuff. It’s not handled natively in the Mac OS, nor I think in Windows which I think is why WinAmp took off.…
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