MP1

MPEG-1 Audio Layer I
Filename extension.mp1
Internet media typeaudio/mpeg, audio/MPA
Initial releaseDecember 6, 1991; 34 years ago (1991-12-06)
Latest release
ISO/IEC 13818-3:1998
(April 1998; 28 years ago (1998-04))
Type of formatLossy audio

MPEG-1 Audio Layer I (MP1), is a lossy data compression format for audio. It is a deliberately simplified version of the MP2 file, but both formats have been largely made obsolete in favour of the more popular and higher quality MP3. Its most notable use was on the Digital Compact Cassette.

References

  1. ↑ "The audio/mpeg Media Type - RFC 3003". IETF. November 2000. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
  2. ↑ "MIME Type Registration of RTP Payload Formats - RFC 3555". IETF. July 2003. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
  3. ↑ Patel K, Smith BC, Rowe LA (1993-09-01). "Performance of a software MPEG video decoder". Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia - MULTIMEDIA '93. ACM Multimedia. New York City: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 75–82. doi:10.1145/166266.166274. ISBN 978-0-89791-596-0. S2CID 3773268. Reference 3 in the paper is to Committee Draft of Standard ISO/IEC 11172, December 6, 1991.