It's time to be picky again!
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I'm not looking for the MPEG-3 encoding itself, but the fileformat of the MP3. I dunno if the MPEG-3 encoding is public or not, but the MP3 fileformat must certainly be documented very clearly somewhere... (an analogy to the GIF-fileformat as example of what I mean: I'm looking for the physical buildup of the fileformat, but not the LZW-compression which can be used by GIF)
MP3 is based on MPEG Audio Layer 3 encoding - that is, MPEG1, not to be mixed with later revisions of the MPEG standard. As far as I know, MPEG3 was aborted and never used in the big world... So there's just MPEG, MPEG2 (used in DVDs) and MPEG4. MP3 is a part of the original MPEG specification.
As to your question, I really have no idea. MP3 is a proprietary format that belongs to the German Fraunhofer IIS. It's not an open format like Ogg. I don't think if you're even allowed to encode audio without a license... So I guess you'll have to google it hard.
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