Editing MP3 (section)

==== Fraunhofer example implementation ====
A hacker named SoloH discovered the [[source code]] of the "dist10" MPEG [[reference implementation]] shortly after the release on the servers of the [[University of Erlangen]]. He developed a higher-quality version and spread it on the internet. This code started the widespread [[CD ripper|CD ripping]] and digital music distribution as MP3 over the internet.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=live |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/09/the-heavenly-jukebox/305141/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430043648/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/09/the-heavenly-jukebox/305141/ |archive-date=30 April 2013 |website= [[The Atlantic]] |quote=To show industries how to use the codec, MPEG cobbled together a free sample program that converted music into MP3 files. The demonstration software created poor-quality sound, and Fraunhofer did not intend that it be used. The software's "source code"—its underlying instructions—was stored on an easily accessible computer at the University of Erlangen, from which it was downloaded by one SoloH, a hacker in the Netherlands (and, one assumes, a Star Wars fan). SoloH revamped the source code to produce software that converted compact-disc tracks into music files of acceptable quality. |url-access=subscription |title=The Heavenly Jukebox |first1=Charles C. |last1=Mann  |date=September 2000 }}</ref><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=3M2hAgAAQBAJ&dq=SoloH+mp3+source+code&pg=PT75 Pop Idols and Pirates: Mechanisms of Consumption and the Global Circulation of Popular Music]'' by Charles Fairchild. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015095150/https://books.google.com/books?id=3M2hAgAAQBAJ&dq=SoloH+mp3+source+code&pg=PT75 |date=15 October 2023 }}.</ref><ref>[http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/1765/989 Technologies of Piracy? - Exploring the Interplay  Between Commercialism and Idealism in the Development of MP3 and DivX] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919101723/https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/1765/989 |date=19 September 2020 }} by HENDRIK STORSTEIN SPILKER, SVEIN HÖIER, page 2072</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170103170919/http://www.euronet.nl/~soloh/mpegEnc/ www.euronet.nl/~soloh/mpegEnc/] ([[Archive.org]])</ref>