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25 years ago first MP3 rip by a warez group was released

article published on 11 August, 2021

Twenty-five years ago, the first "official", illegal MP3 rip was released to public. The honor goes to Metallica's Until It Sleeps which was released back in 10th of August, 1996. First publicly availably MP3 tools were just released back in 1996, with WinPlay3 being the only Windows-based player at the time and l3enc being the best tool to actually convert music from CDs to MP3 format. ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		11. August 2021 @ 08:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I still remember the first CD ripping processes back in fall 1996. As I didn't own DAC-capable CD drive, the audio had to be hijacked from soundcard back to the soundcard in order to save the CD into .wav files. For full 74min CD that meant 74 minutes of "ripping".

Then, with 166MHz Pentium of mine, a single 3 min track took anywhere between 30 to 60 minutes to encode into 128kbps CBR MP3 file, using l3enc (the only encoder at that time).

Since that time, stuff developed pretty rapidly: DAC capable CD-ROM drives became a norm, encoders got faster, Winplay was replaced by WinAMP, etc.
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_ 		11. August 2021 @ 18:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@drd Wow! 60' to encode one single song. It's amazing how much the world has changed in these 25 years, the music business in particular but the whole world in general. Internet changed everything.
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hehe, i remember when burning an mp3 cd that my sys req's were so close that if I even moved my mouse during the burn process it would fail out. Rips took fooorrreeevvveeerrr...

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