Professor Brandenburg is a great and the tricks MP3 uses for compressions are very clever. I’m a student at TU Ilmenau and attended one of his lectures. He has

Professor Brandenburg is a great and the tricks MP3 uses for compressions are very clever. I’m a student at TU Ilmenau and attended one of his lectures. He has recently been working on audio holograms (wave field synthesis). I think the article tries to paint a just a bit too dramatic picture. When I heard Brandenburg retell the story he didn’t sound disappointed about the outcome at all. MP3 dominates today exactly because Fraunhofer’s original business model didn’t work out.