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MP3

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MP3

Summary

MP3 is a proprietary file format[1]. MP3 draws 7,161 Wikipedia views per month (proprietary_file_format category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • MP3's instance of is recorded as lossy audio coding format[3].
  • MP3's instance of is recorded as lossy compression[4].
  • MP3's instance of is recorded as audio compression[5].
  • MP3's instance of is recorded as audio file format[6].
  • MP3's instance of is recorded as open file format[7].
  • MP3's developer is recorded as Fraunhofer Society[8].
  • MP3's developer is recorded as Karlheinz Brandenburg[9].
  • MP3's developer is recorded as Heinz Gerhäuser[10].
  • MP3's developer is recorded as Bernhard Grill[11].
  • MP3's developer is recorded as Harald Popp[12].
  • MP3 is part of MPEG-1[13].
  • MP3 is part of MPEG-2 Part 3[14].
  • MP3's Commons category is recorded as MP3[15].
  • MP3 was published on August 1993[16].
  • MP3's topic's main category is recorded as Category:MP3[17].
  • MP3's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/synalysis/Grammars/master/mp3.grammar[18].
  • MP3's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haypo/hachoir3/master/hachoir/parser/audio/mpeg_audio.py[19].
  • MP3's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wader/fq/master/format/matroska/matroska.go[20].
  • MP3's media type is recorded as audio/mpeg[21].
  • MP3's media type is recorded as audio/MPA[22].
  • MP3's media type is recorded as audio/mpa-robust[23].
  • MP3's file extension is recorded as mp3[24].
  • MP3's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/mp3[25].
  • MP3's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://ja.stackoverflow.com/tags/mp3[26].
  • MP3's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://superuser.com/tags/mp3[27].

Body

Publication

MP3 was released on August 1993[16]. Part of include MPEG-1[13], a file format[28] and MPEG-2 Part 3[14].

Cultural Impact

Things named for MP3 include MP3.com[29], a website[30], founded in 1999[31].

Why It Matters

MP3 draws 7,161 Wikipedia views per month (proprietary_file_format category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] MP3 has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] MP3 is known by 124 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for MP3 include MP3.com[29], a website[30], founded in 1999[31].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . iso.org. iso.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . RFC 3003: The audio/mpeg Media Type. iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . RFC 3555: MIME Type Registration of RTP Payload Formats. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . RFC 5219: A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . file-extension.info. file-extension.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Media type → audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robust
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 21853, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 6d ago · Dabao qian · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Media type → audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robust
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1163]]: audio/mpg"
  3. 11d ago · CommonsDelinker bot · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:MP3
    Instance of → proprietary file format, lossy audio coding format, lossy compression +3
    Aliases → —
    Different from → MPEG-3
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P154]]: Mp3.svg"
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