DJ Mark Cornelius "Tha Don"

12/08/2025

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11/08/2025

For My Mom
Daisy Rose Hendricks
July 30, 1940 - August 11, 2019

03/08/2025

A German engineer was tasked with a goal that sounded impossible: shrink a digital music file by nearly 95% without ruining the sound.

This engineer was Karlheinz Brandenburg. He and his team at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany took on the challenge in the late 1980s.

The problem was that high-quality digital audio files were massive, making them impractical to store or send over the internet at the time.

Their solution was based on psychoacoustics, the study of how we perceive sound. They realized the human ear can't hear every single frequency in a recording.

The algorithm they created cleverly removes the parts of the audio that are inaudible to most people, dramatically reducing the file size.

This new format was standardized in 1991 and officially named MPEG-1 Audio Layer III. We know it today as the MP3. 🎵

The file extension ".mp3" was officially adopted in 1995, and it completely changed the world.

Suddenly, you could store hundreds of songs on a device that fit in your pocket. The age of digital music and the iPod was born directly from this breakthrough. 💿

Brandenburg's work paved the way for the entire digital music revolution, fundamentally changing how we buy, store, and listen to music forever.

Sources: Fraunhofer Institute, The Conversation

01/08/2025

MTV launched 44 years ago today on August 1, 1981. They used to play videos!!!

25/07/2025

George Kooymans, Golden Earring co-founder and guitarist, dies at 77

George Kooymans, the founding guitarist for Golden Earring, best known for 'Radar Love' and 'Twilight Zone,' has died at the age of 77.

24/07/2025

Chuck Mangione has died at 84. He passed this week at his home in New York.

Chuck Mangione, the jazz flugelhorn and trumpet player whose catchy instrumental 'Feels So Good' made the pop top 10, has died at 84.

22/07/2025

Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76. Just 17 days ago, he took the stage for the final time, reuniting with Black Sabbath for a farewell concert in his hometown of Birmingham.

Osbourne's family confirmed the heavy metal rocker's death in a statement to the press.

21/07/2025

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theodore Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show,' has died in an accidental drowning. He was 54.

20/07/2025

Yeah, you two are getting married 💒! 📅 What date did you pic? ⏱️How many hours of service do you need? 📧Send me a message!!

17/07/2025

1960s pop star Connie Francis has died.

Connie Francis, a pop singer and actress whose hits such as “Lipstick on Your Collar” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” became a soundtrack for a generation of teens in the 1960s, has died, according to a post from her publicist and friend, Ron Roberts.

16/07/2025

BREAKING: Tomorrowland 2025 mainstage is on fire just one day before the festival’s opening.

Local news outlets report that “emergency services are on the scene in large numbers”